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Python Web Scraping

You're reading from Python Web Scraping Hands-on data scraping and crawling using PyQT, Selnium, HTML and Python

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781786462589

Length 220 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

HTML

Tools

PyQt

Concepts

Data Mining

Author (1):

Katharine Jarmul

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Web Scraping FREE CHAPTER

2. Scraping the Data

3. Caching Downloads

4. Concurrent Downloading

5. Dynamic Content

6. Interacting with Forms

7. Solving CAPTCHA

8. Scrapy

9. Putting It All Together

Introduction to Web Scraping

Welcome to the wide world of web scraping! Web scraping is used by many fields to collect data not easily available in other formats. You could be a journalist, working on a new story, or a data scientist extracting a new dataset. Web scraping is a useful tool even for just a casual programmer, if you need to check your latest homework assignments on your university page and have them emailed to you. Whatever your motivation, we hope you are ready to learn!

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Introducing the field of web scraping
Explaining the legal challenges
Explaining Python 3 setup
Performing background research on our target website
Progressively building our own advanced web crawler
Using non-standard libraries to help scrape the Web

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Authors (1)

Jarmul

Jarmul

Katharine Jarmul is a data scientist and Pythonista based in Berlin, Germany. She runs a data science consulting company, Kjamistan, that provides services such as data extraction, acquisition, and modelling for small and large companies. She has been writing Python since 2008 and scraping the web with Python since 2010, and has worked at both small and large start-ups who use web scraping for data analysis and machine learning. When she's not scraping the web, you can follow her thoughts and activities via Twitter (@kjam)

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