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Python Web Scraping

You're reading from   Python Web Scraping Successfully scrape data from any website with the power of Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782164364
Length 174 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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BMW


The BMW website has a search tool to find local dealerships, available at https://www.bmw.de/de/home.html?entryType=dlo:

This tool takes a location, and then displays the points near it on a map, such as this search for Berlin:

Using Firebug, we find that the search triggers this AJAX request:

https://c2b-services.bmw.com/c2b-localsearch/services/api/v3/
    clients/BMWDIGITAL_DLO/DE/
        pois?country=DE&category=BM&maxResults=99&language=en&
            lat=52.507537768880056&lng=13.425269635701511

Here, the maxResults parameter is set to 99. However, we can increase this to download all locations in a single query, a technique covered in Chapter 1, Introduction to Web Scraping. Here is the result when maxResults is increased to 1000:

>>> url = 'https://c2b-services.bmw.com/c2b-localsearch/services/api/v3/clients/BMWDIGITAL_DLO/DE/pois?country=DE&category=BM&maxResults=%d&language=en&lat=52.507537768880056&lng=13.425269635701511'
>...
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