Scraping Data from a Real Website | Web Scraping in Python

Honestly I love that you include your missteps in your tutorials for several reasons. It makes coding seem more human, it also shows us that even content creators and great programmers can have missteps that they need to go back and fix which is usually edited out of other tutorial videos. Not to mention there might be people having the same issues without understanding why and you explain it so its almost a mini tutorial on debugging and your programmer thought process. Overall it was an easy 25 minutes to spend watching this. Thank you.

Alex: when I needed to learn SQL for my first analyst job as a career changer, you were there with videos to help me do so. Now I'm in a role that is using more python and once again, you're there! Really appreciate all the work you are putting into creating content to help people!

12:21 I literally stopped when i couldn't figure out why i was getting extra titles when i pulled the titles. I'm so glad that you showed your Rookie mistake. Everyone please watch Alex's videos in full before stopping the video. Thank you for showing your mistakes.

Last year I got a job as a BI Analyst and I've been watching your stuff here and there. This video is hands down one of the best videos I've watched of yours. I had to take multiple tables, pivot them, and label them with the table name and this video 100% helped me get there. I had run into my own set of issues, but not far removed from your sections of mistakes, so thank you for not letting those hit the cutting room floor. Anyway, keep up the great work and thanks so much!

If you are watching this tutorial in 2026 or later years, ensure you set the user-agent at the beginning, else you won't be able to get the data from Wikipedia. Also, pay attention to the index of the table you pull up because the number of tables has changed

I'm so glad you make mistakes and show us where to check if something goes wrong! It's my main problem when I have to work on my own after a tutorial, I mess up and don't ever know where to start to clean up my mess.

Alex, for those folks that are running this example currently, it appears that they removed the first table so the index has moved from [1] to [0]. (@ 8:42) Great job on this class. Love it!!!

“We’re doing this together I dont know what im doing” “I didnt encounter this issue when I wrote this lesson” 🤣

my mind is blown after watching the whole video i didnt imagine this could be done by python.i have to watch it again!what a person you are Alex!

I had struggled with learning web scraping for a long time and had nearly given up, but your video made all the difference. Thanks to your clear and effective guidance, I finally succeeded. I truly appreciate it!