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Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide Implement the power of Go to scrape and crawl data from the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789615708
Length 132 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Searching using the regexp package

The regexp package in the Go standard library provides a deeper level of search by using regular expressions. This defines a syntax that allows you to search for strings in more complex terms, as well as retrieving strings from a document. By using capture groups in regular expressions, you can extract data matching a query from the web page. Here are a few useful tasks that the regexp package can help you achieve.

Example – Finding links

In the previous section, we used the strings package to count the number of links on a page. By using the regexp package, we can take this example further and retrieve the actual links with the following regular expression:

 <a.*href\s*=\s*[...
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