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Julia 1.0 Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Julia 1.0 Programming Cookbook Over 100 numerical and distributed computing recipes for your daily data science work?ow

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788998369
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Przemysław Szufel Przemysław Szufel
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Bogumił Kamiński Bogumił Kamiński
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Setting Up Julia 2. Data Structures and Algorithms FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Engineering in Julia 4. Numerical Computing with Julia 5. Variables, Types, and Functions 6. Metaprogramming and Advanced Typing 7. Handling Analytical Data 8. Julia Workflow 9. Data Science 10. Distributed Computing 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Fetching data from the internet

In this recipe, we will show how to use Julia to obtain data from the internet, and how to extract information from web pages. We will write some sample code that extracts the number of stars from GitHub projects.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need the following packages: HTTP.jl, Gumbo.jl, and Cascadia.jl. These packages can simply be installed with the Julia package manager. In the Julia command line (REPL), simply press ] key and run the following commands:

(v1.0) pkg> add HTTP 
(v1.0) pkg> add Gumbo
(v1.0) pkg> add Cascadia

This will install the aforementioned packages and all their dependencies.

In the GitHub repository for this recipe, you will find the commands...
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