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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python. Perform advanced scraping operations using various Python libraries and tools such as Selenium, Regex, and others

Hands-On Web Scraping with Python. Perform advanced scraping operations using various Python libraries and tools such as Selenium, Regex, and others

Anish Chapagain

Ebook
Web scraping is an essential technique used in many organizations to gather valuable data from web pages. This book will enable you to delve into web scraping techniques and methodologies.
The book will introduce you to the fundamental concepts of web scraping techniques and how they can be applied to multiple sets of web pages. You'll use powerful libraries from the Python ecosystem such as Scrapy, lxml, pyquery, and bs4 to carry out web scraping operations. You will then get up to speed with simple to intermediate scraping operations such as identifying information from web pages and using patterns or attributes to retrieve information. This book adopts a practical approach to web scraping concepts and tools, guiding you through a series of use cases and showing you how to use the best tools and techniques to efficiently scrape web pages. You'll even cover the use of other popular web scraping tools, such as Selenium, Regex, and web-based APIs.
By the end of this book, you will have learned how to efficiently scrape the web using different techniques with Python and other popular tools.
  • 1. Web Scraping Fundamentals
  • 2. Python and the Web - Using urllib and Requests
  • 3. Using LXML, XPath, and CSS Selectors
  • 4. Scraping Using pyquery - a Python Library
  • 5. Web Scraping Using Scrapy and Beautiful Soup
  • 6. Working with Secure Web
  • 7. Data Extraction Using Web-Based APIs
  • 8. Using Selenium to Scrape the Web
  • 9. Using Regex to Extract Data
  • 10. Next Steps
  • Title: Hands-On Web Scraping with Python. Perform advanced scraping operations using various Python libraries and tools such as Selenium, Regex, and others
  • Author: Anish Chapagain
  • Original title: Hands-On Web Scraping with Python. Perform advanced scraping operations using various Python libraries and tools such as Selenium, Regex, and others
  • ISBN: 9781789536195, 9781789536195
  • Date of issue: 2019-07-15
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_2awj
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing