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How to Read a CSV File from Amazon S3 Using Python (With Headers and Rows Displayed)

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  Introduction If you’re working with cloud data, especially on AWS, chances are you’ll encounter data stored in CSV files inside an Amazon S3 bucket . Whether you're building a data pipeline or a quick analysis tool, reading data directly from S3 in Python is a fast, reliable, and scalable way to get started. In this blog post, we’ll walk through: Setting up access to S3 Reading a CSV file using Python and Boto3 Displaying headers and rows Tips to handle larger datasets Let’s jump in! What You’ll Need An AWS account An S3 bucket with a CSV file uploaded AWS credentials (access key and secret key) Python 3.x installed boto3 and pandas libraries installed (you can install them via pip) pip install boto3 pandas Step-by-Step: Read CSV from S3 Let’s say your S3 bucket is named my-data-bucket , and your CSV file is sample-data/employees.csv . ✅ Step 1: Import Required Libraries import boto3 import pandas as pd from io import StringIO boto3 is...
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Scraping Website: How to Write a Script in Python

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Here's a python model script to scrape a website using the BeautifulSoup. Python script The logic below uses BeautifulSoup Package for web scraping. import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup url = "https://www.example.com" response = requests.get(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser") # Print the title of the webpage print(soup.title.text) # Print all the links in the webpage for link in soup.find_all("a"):     print(link.get("href")) In this script, we first import the Requests and Beautiful Soup libraries. We then define the URL we want to scrape and use the Requests library to send a GET request to that URL. We then pass the response text to Beautiful Soup to parse the HTML contents of the webpage. We then use Beautiful Soup to extract the title of the webpage and print it to the console. We also use a for loop to find all the links in the webpage and print their href attributes to the console. This is just a basic exa...
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