Website Scraping with Python: Using BeautifulSoup and Scrapy

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: WOW! eBook; 1st edition (September 15, 2018)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1484239245
• ISBN-13: 978-1484239247

eBook Description:

Website Scraping with Python: Using BeautifulSoup and Scrapy

Closely examine website scraping and data processing: the technique of extracting data from websites in a format suitable for further analysis. You’ll review which tools to use, and compare their features and efficiency. Focusing on BeautifulSoup4 and Scrapy, this concise, focused book highlights common problems and suggests solutions that readers can implement on their own.

Website Scraping with Python: Using BeautifulSoup and Scrapy starts by introducing and installing the scraping tools and explaining the features of the full application that readers will build throughout the book. You’ll see how to use BeautifulSoup4 and Scrapy individually or together to achieve the desired results. Because many sites use JavaScript, you’ll also employ Selenium with a browser emulator to render these sites and make them ready for scraping.