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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Web Scraping with Python Extract quality data from the web using effective Python techniques

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Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636211
Length 324 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Anish Chapagain is a software engineer with a passion for data science, its processes, and Python programming, which began around 2007. He has been working with web scraping and analysis-related tasks for more than 5 years, and is currently pursuing freelance projects in the web scraping domain. Anish previously worked as a trainer, web/software developer, and as a banker, where he was exposed to data and gained further insights into topics including data analysis, visualization, data mining, information processing, and knowledge discovery. He has an MSc in computer systems from Bangor University (University of Wales), United Kingdom, and an Executive MBA from Himalayan Whitehouse International College, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Preface 1. Part 1:Python and Web Scraping
2. Chapter 1: Web Scraping Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Python Programming for Data and Web 4. Part 2:Beginning Web Scraping
5. Chapter 3: Searching and Processing Web Documents 6. Chapter 4: Scraping Using PyQuery, a jQuery-Like Library for Python 7. Chapter 5: Scraping the Web with Scrapy and Beautiful Soup 8. Part 3:Advanced Scraping Concepts
9. Chapter 6: Working with the Secure Web 10. Chapter 7: Data Extraction Using Web APIs 11. Chapter 8: Using Selenium to Scrape the Web 12. Chapter 9: Using Regular Expressions and PDFs 13. Part 4:Advanced Data-Related Concepts
14. Chapter 10: Data Mining, Analysis, and Visualization 15. Chapter 11: Machine Learning and Web Scraping 16. Part 5:Conclusion
17. Chapter 12: After Scraping – Next Steps and Data Analysis 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

A web browser (Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox) will be required and we will be using JupyterLab for the Python code.

Please refer to the Setting things up and Creating a virtual environment sections in Chapter 2 to continue setting up and using the environment created. Refer to https://pypdf2.readthedocs.io/en/3.0.0/user/installation.html to install PyPDF2.

The Python libraries that are required for this chapter are as follows:

  • requests
  • re
  • pypdf2

The code files for this chapter are available online in this book’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Web-Scraping-with-Python-Second-Edition/tree/main/Chapter09.

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Anish Chapagain is a software engineer with a passion for data science, and artificial intelligence, its processes and Python programming, which began around 2007. He has been working with web scraping, data analysis, visualization and reporting-related tasks, projects for more than 10 years, and is also working as freelancer. Anish previously worked as a trainer, web/software developer, team leader, and as a banker, where he was exposed to data and gained further insights into topics like data mining, data analysis, reporting, information processing and knowledge discovery. He has an MSc in computer systems from Bangor University (United Kingdom), and an Executive MBA from Himalayan Whitehouse International College, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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