once your program has downloaded web page using the requests moduleyou will have the page' html content as single string value now you need to figure out which part of the html corresponds to the information on the web page you're interested in this is where the browser' developer tools can help say you want to write program to pull weather forecast data from before writing any codedo little research if you visit the site and search for the zip codethe site will take you to page showing the forecast for that area what if you're interested in scraping the weather information for that zip coderight-click where it is on the page (or control-click on macosand select inspect element from the context menu that appears this will bring up the developer tools windowwhich shows you the html that produces this particular part of the web page figure - shows the developer tools open to the html of the nearest forecast note that if the repeat this process to inspect the new elements figure - inspecting the element that holds forecast text with the developer tools