Want to learn web scraping

[Corleone<3]

Hello guys I have zero knowledge on programming and I just wanna ask how long it will take me to learn web scraping until be able to build automation bots and other similar tools?

 

[MRDon7]

Does it matter how long it takes?
Are you a fast or slow learner?
Just learn it well!

 

[IntiMech]

Depends on how committed you are. 4-6 hours a day and hands on experience you can have something running within a week.
With AI you can learn anything 3x faster than before BUT you have to put in the work.

 

[Corleone<3]

Depends on how committed you are. 4-6 hours a day and hands on experience you can have something running within a week.
With AI you can learn anything 3x faster than before BUT you have to put in the work.

Gimme some sources

 

[Corleone<3]

you could start by scraping websites

Gimme sources

 

[Westexotic]

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
Start there and once you've completed the Python tutorial, go learn BeautifulSoup and Selenium

 

[It's Friday]

Hello guys I have zero knowledge on programming and I just wanna ask how long it will take me to learn web scraping until be able to build automation bots and other similar tools?

Try on free training online courses. Google is your friend

 

[IntiMech]

Gimme some sources

For starters, being rude isn't going to get you anywhere fast.
I would have but you couldn't even take the time to ask myself or the other gentleman politely so good luck my friend.
I hear this tool i believe they call google might have some answers.
Your going to want to learn to use it.

 

[uncutu]

anywhere from a weekend for the dedicated individual, to never for the one who gives up at the first difficulty.
wild you are asking for success stories as if you dont have access to the same google search engine we do.

 

[shipments]

I'm not smart. I don't have a programmer brain and I failed one of my basic math classes in college.

I learned to make a scraper and some basic automations in about a month and a half of learning python and I would confidently tell anybody else they can do the same.

Making bots for some of the bigger social media sites is a little more challenging but even then, it can be done.

Download VCS, hit up youtube and get to work. You can easily do it bro.

 

[CSRDP]

You'll easily learn in 2 months if you really want to, but if you're asking that question, I think try something different

 

[Deleted member 1930660]

Use Python and GPT4o and maybe some yt videos

 

[Wave_Tronic]

I would start with a basic python course to get a little elementary knowledge. The CS50 would be a free way to follow a structured course. Also, just download Thonny and play around with making simple programs. Code every day. Good luck.
https://pll.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science

 

[robertcodelife]

Python - 2 weeks,
BeautifulSoup - 1 week
Selenium- 1 week
This is for basic level, neither medium nor advanced.

 

[DabsKey254]

Hello guys I have zero knowledge on programming and I just wanna ask how long it will take me to learn web scraping until be able to build automation bots and other similar tools?

Learn python for some time and get the way it works. Then Learn Beautiful soup for python, Learn how to use it well. Then go to the giant framework called Scrapy, it's insanely powerful.. create spiders that can crawl the web thousands of pages, Learn how to avoid getting blocked and how to use rotating proxies in scrapy. Then you'll be a genius at scrapping.