highly recommend viewing the source html of some of your favorite sites it' fine if you don' fully understand what you are seeing when you look at the source you won' need html mastery to write simple web scraping programs--after allyou won' be writing your own websites you just need enough knowledge to pick out data from an existing site opening your browser' developer tools in addition to viewing web page' sourceyou can look through page' html using your browser' developer tools in chrome and internet explorer for windowsthe developer tools are already installedand you can press to make them appear (see figure - pressing again will make the developer tools disappear in chromeyou can also bring up the developer tools by selecting viewdeveloperdeveloper tools in macospressing option- will open chrome' developer tools