Extracting Data

Once you've found elements, you need to extract the data. This lesson covers all the extraction techniques you'll need.

Extracting Text

Cleaning Text

Extracting Attributes

Extracting Links

Extracting Images

Extracting Tables

Extracting Lists

Building Data Structures

Handling Missing Data

Type Conversion

Exercise: Extract Product Info

Key Takeaways

• Use .text or .get_text() for text content
• Use .get() for safe attribute access with defaults
• Use urljoin() to handle relative URLs
• Extract tables row by row, cell by cell
• Always handle missing data gracefully
• Convert text to proper types (int, float, bool)
• Build dictionaries or objects from extracted data