PrintThere is a wealth of geographic (and other) information available out there on the web in the form of web pages and web services, and sometimes we may want to make use of this information in our Python programs. In the first walkthrough of this lesson, we will access two web services from our Python code that allow us to retrieve information about places based on the places’ names. Another common web-based programming task is scraping the content of web pages with the goal of extracting certain pieces of information from them, for instance links leading to other pages. In this section, we are laying the foundation to perform such tasks in Python by showing some examples of working with URLs and web requests using the urllib and requests packages from the standard Python library, and the BeautifulSoup4 (bs4) package, which is a 3rd party package that you will have to install.