this was straightforward and very basic approach to get the required data what if we want to go step further and extract information related to all blog posts on the page and perform better cleanupfor such taskwe utilize the beautifulsoup library beautifulsoup is the go-to standard library for web scraping and related tasks it provides some amazing functionality to ease out the scraping process for the task at handour process would be to first crawl the index page and extract the urls to all the blog post links listed on the page for this we would use the requests get(function to extract the content and then utilize beautifulsoup' utilities to get the content from the urls the following snippet showcases the function get_post_mapping()which parses the home page content to extract the blog post headings and corresponding urls into dictionary the function finally returns list of such dictionaries def get_post_mapping(content)"""this function extracts blog post title and url from response object argscontent (request content)string content returned from requests get returnslista list of dictionaries with keys title and url ""post_detail_list [post_soup beautifulsoup(content,"lxml" _content post_soup find_all(" "for in _contentpost_detail_list append{'title': get_text(),'url': attrs get('href')return post_detail_list the pervious function first creates an object of beautifulsoup specifying lxml as its parser it then uses the tag and regex based search to extract the required list of tags (we got to the tag by the same inspect element approach we utilized previouslythe next task was to simply iterate through the list of the tags and utilize the get_text(utility function from beautifulsoup to get the blog post heading and its corresponding url the list returned from the function is as follows [{'title' "wannacrywhy it' only the beginningand how to prepare for what comes next"'url''/in/blog/all-blog-posts/wannacry-how-to-prepare/ '}{'title' 'reusing ngrx/effects in angular (communicating between reducers)''url''/in/blog/all-blog-posts/reusing-ngrx-effects-in-angular/ '}{'title' 'interview with tony smith author and sharepoint expert''url''/in/blog/all-blog-posts/interview-with-tony-smith-author-and-sharepoint-expert/ '}{'title' 'making sense of sensors \ types and levels of recognition''url''/in/blog/all-blog-posts/making-sense-of-sensors/ '}{'title' 'vs net coreand javascript frameworksoh my!''url''/in/blog/all-blog-posts/vs- -net-core-and-javascript-frameworks-oh-my/ '}