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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Web Scraping with Python Extract quality data from the web using effective Python techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636211
Length 324 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Python and Web Scraping
2. Chapter 1: Web Scraping Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Python Programming for Data and Web 4. Part 2:Beginning Web Scraping
5. Chapter 3: Searching and Processing Web Documents 6. Chapter 4: Scraping Using PyQuery, a jQuery-Like Library for Python 7. Chapter 5: Scraping the Web with Scrapy and Beautiful Soup 8. Part 3:Advanced Scraping Concepts
9. Chapter 6: Working with the Secure Web 10. Chapter 7: Data Extraction Using Web APIs 11. Chapter 8: Using Selenium to Scrape the Web 12. Chapter 9: Using Regular Expressions and PDFs 13. Part 4:Advanced Data-Related Concepts
14. Chapter 10: Data Mining, Analysis, and Visualization 15. Chapter 11: Machine Learning and Web Scraping 16. Part 5:Conclusion
17. Chapter 12: After Scraping – Next Steps and Data Analysis 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Selenium WebDriver

Selenium is used for browser automation, and one of its major components, WebDriver, is the core tool to access browsers. WebDriver implements code logic for selected browsers that is required during automation. It’s also the core system that binds the Selenium framework with the browser and often gets called or referred to as Selenium driver or only driver. For more detailed information, visit this link: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/getting_started/.

Before going deep into the automation or using the framework, let’s install the required libraries in the next section.

Setting things up

To explore browser automation using Python and Selenium WebDriver, first, we need to install the selenium library (a Python library), and browser-related drivers.

Important note

Selenium is a framework that contains various components such as WebDriver and others, whereas selenium is a Python library (https://www.selenium.dev...

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