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-Check out the configuration reference at https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-config-reference
+# Flask Web Scraper
+
+Live Demo: https://lovnishverma-webscrapingexample.hf.space/
+
+Live Demo: https://webscaraping-simplified.onrender.com
+
+GitHub Repo Link: https://github.com/lovnishverma/webscaraping-simplified
+
+## Overview
+This is a simple **Flask-based web scraping application** that allows users to enter a URL and an HTML tag to extract and display content from that webpage.
+
+![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/13838a50-71e5-411d-ac7c-034e5caac405)
+
+
+## Features
+✅ **User-friendly Web Interface:** Enter URL and tag to scrape data.
+
+✅ **Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup:** Extracts text from specified HTML tags.
+
+✅ **Error Handling:** Displays an error if URL or tag is missing.
+
+✅ **Minimal and Lightweight:** Uses Flask for the backend.
+
+## Requirements
+Ensure you have the following installed before running the project:
+
+- 🐍 Python
+- 🌐 Flask
+- 🔗 Requests
+- 🏗️ BeautifulSoup4 (bs4)
+
+You can install dependencies using:
+```sh
+pip install flask requests beautifulsoup4
+```
+
+## Project Structure
+📂 **Project Directory:**
+```
+/your_project_directory
+│── app.py               # 🏗️ Main Flask application
+│── templates/
+│   │── index.html       # 📄 Home page with form
+│   │── result.html      # 📄 Page to display scraped data
+│── static/              # 🎨 (Optional) CSS/JS files
+│── README.md            # 📖 Project Documentation
+```
+
+## Usage
+🚀 **Run the Flask Application:**
+
+Create start.sh file and write:
+
+```sh
+python app.py
+```
+
+🌍 **Access the Web App:**
+Open your browser and visit:
+```
+http://yourprojectname.glitch.me/
+```
+
+📝 **Enter URL and Tag:**
+1. Provide a valid URL.
+2. Specify an HTML tag (e.g., `p`, `h1`, `div`).
+3. Click submit to fetch and display the data.
+
+## Code
+```python
+from flask import Flask, render_template, request  # Flask is used to create a web app
+import requests  # To send HTTP requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup  # BeautifulSoup is used for web scraping
+
+app = Flask(__name__)  # Creating a Flask app instance
+
+# Home route - Displays the form
+@app.route("/")
+def index():
+    return render_template("index.html")  # Renders the index.html template
+
+# Scraping route - Scrapes data based on user input
+@app.route("/scrape", methods=["POST"])
+def scrape():
+    url, tag = request.form.get("url"), request.form.get("tag")  # Get URL and tag from the form
+    if not url or not tag:  # If any value is missing, return an error
+        return render_template("result.html", error="Both URL and Tag are required.")
+
+    # Send an HTTP request to fetch the webpage content
+    response = requests.get(url, headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"})
+    response.raise_for_status()  # Raise an error if the request fails
+
+    # Parse the HTML content of the page
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
+
+    # Extract text from all occurrences of the given tag
+    elements = [e.get_text() for e in soup.find_all(tag)]
+
+    # Render the result page with extracted data
+    return render_template("result.html", tag=tag, url=url, title=soup.title.string or "No Title", elements=elements)
+
+# Run the Flask server
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    app.run(debug=True)  # Debug mode is enabled to show errors in the console
+
+```
+
+![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1a81b045-6962-4d62-92b9-ea3260705df2)
+
+
+## Notes
+⚠️ **Important Considerations:**
+- Works only with publicly accessible websites.
+- Some websites may block requests (**Use user-agent headers to avoid 403 errors**).
+- Handles missing input errors but does not handle all exceptions.
+
+## Future Improvements
+✨ **Potential Enhancements:**
+- 🔄 Add support for multiple tags.
+- 📜 Implement pagination for large data sets.
+- 💾 Store scraped data in a database.
+
+---
+🎉 **Happy Coding! 🚀**
+