Scraping info from websites (Python?)

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Hi all,

Hoping you might be able to help me out. I'm working on a project where I could really do with counting the number of instances of an image across website e.g. on a web store how many product pages have a 'Online Only' image appearing on them or a 'clearance' image etc.

I've worked with people in the past who have similar stuff to this for me using Python (believe it looks at class and style tags in the web source code?) but now really want to try and learn how to do it myself.

Is Python the best way to try and do the above or are there better ways to do it? Keen to learn but also don't have much free time so keen to minimize the time I need to spend figuring out how to do what I need to :)

Many thanks

Edit: For context I work with SQL and SAS day in day out so am quite comfortable learning raw code etc :)
 
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