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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Web Scraping with Python Perform advanced scraping operations using various Python libraries and tools such as Selenium, Regex, and others

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789533392
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Web Scraping FREE CHAPTER
2. Web Scraping Fundamentals 3. Section 2: Beginning Web Scraping
4. Python and the Web – Using urllib and Requests 5. Using LXML, XPath, and CSS Selectors 6. Scraping Using pyquery – a Python Library 7. Web Scraping Using Scrapy and Beautiful Soup 8. Section 3: Advanced Concepts
9. Working with Secure Web 10. Data Extraction Using Web-Based APIs 11. Using Selenium to Scrape the Web 12. Using Regex to Extract Data 13. Section 4: Conclusion
14. Next Steps 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Section 1: Introduction to Web Scraping

In this section, you will be given an overview of web scraping (scraping requirements, the importance of data), web contents (patterns and layouts), Python programming and libraries (the basics and advanced), and data managing techniques (file handling and databases).

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  • Chapter 1, Web Scraping Fundamentals
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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python
Published in: Jul 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789533392
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