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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

Processing infinitely scrolling pages

Many websites have replaced "previous/next" pagination buttons with an infinite scrolling mechanism. These websites use this technique to load more data when the user has reached the bottom of the page. Because of this, strategies for crawling by following the "next page" link fall apart.

While this would seem to be a case for using browser automation to simulate the scrolling, it's actually quite easy to figure out the web pages' Ajax requests and use those for crawling instead of the actual page. Let's look at spidyquotes.herokuapp.com/scroll as an example.

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