Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

Hands-On Web Scraping with Python by Anish Chapagain
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1789533392 | 350 pages | PDF,EPUB,MOBI | 26 MB
This book will introduce you to the fundamental concepts of web scraping techniques and how they can be applied to multiple sets of web pages. We'll use powerful libraries from the Python ecosystem-such as Scrapy, lxml, pyquery, bs4, and others-to carry out web scraping operations. We will take an in-depth look at essential tasks to carry out simple to intermediate scraping operations such as identifying information from web pages, using patterns or attributes to retrieve information, and others. 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. This book also covers the use of other popular web scraping tools, such as Selenium, Regex, and web-based APIs.