CodeAlpha Internship - Task 1: Web Scraping

📌 Project Overview

This repository contains my submission for Task 1: Web Scraping as part of the CodeAlpha Data Analytics Internship.
The goal of this task is to extract structured data from websites using Python and prepare it for analysis.

🛠️ Tools & Libraries

• Python
• BeautifulSoup
• Requests
• Pandas

📂 Files in Repository

• Task1_Web_Scraping.ipynb → Jupyter Notebook with code and explanations
• Task1_books.xls → Sample dataset scraped
• Task1_books_full_dataset.xls → Extended dataset with pagination

🚀 Steps Performed

1. Scraped book titles, prices, ratings, and availability from a public website.
2. Parsed HTML structure using BeautifulSoup.
3. Cleaned and structured the data into tabular format.
4. Exported results into Excel files for further analysis.

🎯 Learning Outcomes

• Understanding HTML structure and navigation
• Extracting structured data using BeautifulSoup
• Building custom datasets for analytics