Web Scraping and Accessing Cryptocurrency Data

Abstract

Transform the web into your data source. Chapter 10 introduces methods for extracting financial data and downloadable files from websites using Python tools such as BeautifulSoup and requests. Learners will practise legal and ethical scraping through examples based on demonstration sites. The chapter includes a compliance checklist covering permissions, terms of service, and data protection. It also introduces the use of application programming interfaces for accessing financial data, including cryptocurrency prices from CoinGecko.