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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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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787285217
Length 364 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Heydt Michael Heydt
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

Connecting to the Elastic Cloud cluster with Python

Now let's look at how to connect to Elastic Cloud using the Elasticsearch Python library.

Getting ready

The code for this recipe is in the 11/01/elasticcloud_starwars.py script. This script will scrape Star Wars character data from the swapi.co API/website and put it into the Elastic Cloud.

How to do it

We proceed with the recipe as follows:

  1. Execute the file as a Python script:
$ python elasticcloud_starwars.py
  1. This will loop through up to 20 characters and drop them into the sw index with a document type of...
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