How to build a URL crawler to map a website using Python

How to build a URL crawler to map a website using Python

5 years ago
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https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-build-a-url-crawler-to-map-a-website-using-python-6a287be1da11

Before we start, let’s make sure we understand what web scraping is:

In this tutorial, I want to demonstrate how easy it is to build a simple URL crawler in Python that you can use to map websites. While this program is relatively simple, it can provide a great introduction to the fundamentals of web scraping and automation. We will be focusing on recursively extracting links from web pages, but the same ideas can be applied to a myriad of other solutions.