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Python Web Scraping Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Web Scraping Cookbook Over 90 proven recipes to get you scraping with Python, microservices, Docker, and AWS

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Michael Heydt is an independent consultant, programmer, educator, and trainer. He has a passion for learning and sharing his knowledge of new technologies. Michael has worked in multiple industry verticals, including media, finance, energy, and healthcare. Over the last decade, he worked extensively with web, cloud, and mobile technologies and managed user experiences, interface design, and data visualization for major consulting firms and their clients. Michael's current company, Seamless Thingies , focuses on IoT development and connecting everything with everything. Michael is the author of numerous articles, papers, and books, such as D3.js By Example, Instant Lucene. NET, Learning Pandas, and Mastering Pandas for Finance, all by Packt. Michael is also a frequent speaker at .NET user groups and various mobile, cloud, and IoT conferences and delivers webinars on advanced technologies.
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Scraping 2. Data Acquisition and Extraction FREE CHAPTER 3. Processing Data 4. Working with Images, Audio, and other Assets 5. Scraping - Code of Conduct 6. Scraping Challenges and Solutions 7. Text Wrangling and Analysis 8. Searching, Mining and Visualizing Data 9. Creating a Simple Data API 10. Creating Scraper Microservices with Docker 11. Making the Scraper as a Service Real 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Data Acquisition and Extraction

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • How to parse websites and navigate the DOM using BeautifulSoup
  • Searching the DOM with Beautiful Soup's find methods
  • Querying the DOM with XPath and lxml
  • Querying data with XPath and CSS Selectors
  • Using Scrapy selectors
  • Loading data in Unicode / UTF-8 format
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Michael Heydt is an independent consultant, programmer, educator, and trainer. He has a passion for learning and sharing his knowledge of new technologies. Michael has worked in multiple industry verticals, including media, finance, energy, and healthcare. Over the last decade, he worked extensively with web, cloud, and mobile technologies and managed user experiences, interface design, and data visualization for major consulting firms and their clients. Michael's current company, Seamless Thingies , focuses on IoT development and connecting everything with everything. Michael is the author of numerous articles, papers, and books, such as D3.js By Example, Instant Lucene. NET, Learning Pandas, and Mastering Pandas for Finance, all by Packt. Michael is also a frequent speaker at .NET user groups and various mobile, cloud, and IoT conferences and delivers webinars on advanced technologies.
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