Web Scraping With Python : : Collecting Data From the Modern web

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Call Number: 005.133 Py
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Includes index.
Part I. Building scrapers: Your first web scraper -- Advanced HTML parsing -- Starting to crawl -- Using APIs -- Storing data -- Reading documents. Part II. Advanced scraping: Cleaning your dirty data -- Reading and writing natural languages -- Crawling through forms and logins -- Scraping JavaScript -- Image processing and text recognition -- Avoiding scraping traps -- Testing your website with scrapers -- Testing your website with scrapers -- Scraping remotely.
Learn web scraping and crawling techniques to access data from any web source in any format. Teaches basic web scraping mechanics, but also delves into more advanced topics, such as analyzing raw data or using scrapers for frontend website testing.

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Best for an intermediate+ programmer submitted by Matt Weber on March 6, 2017, 6:17am I'm a fairly novice Python programmer. I'm working on a home/DIY project for which I need the computer to grab one particular bit of data from a website every minute or so. Despite my novice skills, I had hoped I'd be able to "muddle through" with the help of this book. That turned out not to be true. I can follow the Python parts of this book well enough, but it presumes a level of knowledge of HTML that I just don't have. It turns out I need that knowledge in order to understand what is going on on the website I want the computer to access, so I can tell the computer how to navigate it. The book also tosses in lots of programming ideas that are no doubt familiar to experienced programmers, but new to me, and it doesn't define them. So I feel lost a lot. I'm still hoping to rescue my project, but will be looking elsewhere for help. This book is best suited to someone who is at least an intermediate level programmer with some familiarity with HTML.