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Anish Chapagain
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Anish Chapagain

Anish Chapagain is a software engineer with a passion for data science, its processes, and Python programming, which began around 2007. He has been working with web scraping and analysis-related tasks for more than 5 years, and is currently pursuing freelance projects in the web scraping domain. Anish previously worked as a trainer, web/software developer, and as a banker, where he was exposed to data and gained further insights into topics including data analysis, visualization, data mining, information processing, and knowledge discovery. He has an MSc in computer systems from Bangor University (University of Wales), United Kingdom, and an Executive MBA from Himalayan Whitehouse International College, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Scraping using lxml – a Python library

The lxml library is an XML toolkit with a rich library set to process XML and HTML. lxml is preferred over other XML-based libraries in Python for its high speed and effective memory management, plus it has various other features to handle both small and large XML files.

Python programmers use lxml to process XML and HTML documents. There are plenty of other such libraries in Python; a few even build on top of lxml with extra add-ons. lxml is also used as a parser engine in Python libraries such as Beautiful Soup (https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/) and pandas (https://pandas.pydata.org/).

DOM parsing, traversing element trees, XPath, and CSS selector are the features that make lxml effective and efficient enough for tasks such as web scraping. For more details on lxml and its documentation, please visit https://lxml.de/.

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lxml provides native support to XPath and XSLT and is built on the powerful...

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Anish Chapagain is a software engineer with a passion for data science, its processes, and Python programming, which began around 2007. He has been working with web scraping and analysis-related tasks for more than 5 years, and is currently pursuing freelance projects in the web scraping domain. Anish previously worked as a trainer, web/software developer, and as a banker, where he was exposed to data and gained further insights into topics including data analysis, visualization, data mining, information processing, and knowledge discovery. He has an MSc in computer systems from Bangor University (University of Wales), United Kingdom, and an Executive MBA from Himalayan Whitehouse International College, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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