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Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

You're reading from Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide Implement the power of Go to scrape and crawl data from the web

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789615708

Length 132 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

golearn

Concepts

Data Analysis

Author (1):

Vincent Smith

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Web Scraping and Go FREE CHAPTER

2. The Request/Response Cycle

3. Web Scraping Etiquette

4. Parsing HTML

5. Web Scraping Navigation

6. Protecting Your Web Scraper

7. Scraping with Concurrency

8. Scraping at 100x

9. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Boundaries

When you are crawling a website, you may not always know where you will end up. Many links in web pages take you to external sites that you may not trust as much as your target sites. These linked pages could contain irrelevant information or could be used for malicious purposes. It is important to define boundaries for your web scraper to safely navigate through unknown sources.

Whitelists

Whitelisting domains is a process by means of which you explicitly allow your scraper to access certain websites. Any site listed on the whitelist is OK for the web scraper to access, whereas any site that is not listed is automatically skipped. This is a simple way to ensure that your scraper only accesses pages for a small...

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William Smith has been writing software since 1988, but he began his professional career in the environmental field with degrees in Environmental Science and Business Administration. While working in this field, William continued writing software as a hobbyist before returning to the University of Maryland for a degree in Computer Science. William currently works as an independent software engineer and author. He is the owner of Appsmiths LLC, a development and consulting firm concentrating on mobile application and game development using native tools as well as cross-platform tools, such as Xamarin and Monogame. William lives in rural West Virginia with his beautiful wife and four sons, where they enjoy hunting, fishing, and camping as a family.

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