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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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Vincent Smith Vincent Smith
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Distributed scraping with dataflowkit

Now that you have seen the progression of building fully featured web scrapers, I would like to introduce you to the most complete web scraping project in Go that has been built today. dataflowkit, by GitHub user slotix, is a fully featured web scraper that is modular and extensible for building scalable, large-scale distributed applications. It allows for multiple backends for storage of cached and computed information and is capable of both simple HTTP requests as well as driving browsers through the DevTools Protocol. Going above and beyond, dataflowkit has both a command-line interface and a JSON format to declare web scraping scripts.

The architecture of dataflowkit is separated into two distinct parts: fetching and parsing. Both Fetch and Parse phases of the system are built as separate binaries to be run on different machines. They...

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