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Learn Web Scraping the Fun Way by Building A Discord Bot

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You know web scraping is a highly beneficial skill to have, it’s been on your list of things to learn for a very long time now.

What’s holding you back?

We both know the answer is the most elusive force in the universe called motivation.🙂 While the simple but factual ‘it’s good for you’ usually has no bearing on us, by some lucky chance, we humans can be easily motivated by fun.

🤖 Let’s get the fun started with a Discord bot!

Before we get our hands dirty, I want to make it clear that while it seems like I’m complicating web-scraping by throwing in building a Discord bot. The bot is actually really simple to make thanks to the awesome Discord package.

By the end of this post, we will have a live Discord bot that goes to the website and searches for us.

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Bot Setup

What you need before setup:

• A Discord account.
• A Discord server. If you don’t…