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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Web Scraping with Python Perform advanced scraping operations using various Python libraries and tools such as Selenium, Regex, and others

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789533392
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Web Scraping FREE CHAPTER
2. Web Scraping Fundamentals 3. Section 2: Beginning Web Scraping
4. Python and the Web – Using urllib and Requests 5. Using LXML, XPath, and CSS Selectors 6. Scraping Using pyquery – a Python Library 7. Web Scraping Using Scrapy and Beautiful Soup 8. Section 3: Advanced Concepts
9. Working with Secure Web 10. Data Extraction Using Web-Based APIs 11. Using Selenium to Scrape the Web 12. Using Regex to Extract Data 13. Section 4: Conclusion
14. Next Steps 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Accessing the web with Python

Python is a programming language that's used to code various types of applications, from simple scripts to AI algorithms and web frameworks. We will be writing scripts in Python to access the URLs that we are interested in from a data extraction or scraping perspective.

A number of Python libraries exist for HTTP communication and web-related purposes (including http, cookielib, urllib, requests, html, socket, json, xmlrpc, httplib2, and urllib3). We will explore and use a few of them that have been praised by the programmers' community for HTTP access or client-server communication. The urllib and requests Python modules are the ones we are interested in using. These libraries possess various functions that can be used to communicate with the web using Python and deal with HTTP requests and responses.

In order to start a few coding tasks...

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