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Successfully scrape data from any website with the power of Python 3.xAbout This Book* A hands-on guide to web scraping using Python with solutions to real-world problems* Create a number of different web scrapers in Python to extract information* This book includes practical examples on using the popular and well-maintained libraries in Python for your web scraping needsWho This Book Is ForThis book is aimed at developers who want to use web scraping for legitimate purposes. Prior programming experience with Python would be useful but not essential. Anyone with general knowledge of programming languages should be able to pick up the book and understand the principals involved.What You Will Learn* Extract data from web pages with simple Python programming* Build a concurrent crawler to process web pages in parallel* Follow links to crawl a website* Extract features from the HTML* Cache downloaded HTML for reuse* Compare concurrent models to determine the fastest crawler* Find out how to parse JavaScript-dependent websites* Interact with forms and sessionsIn DetailThe Internet contains the most useful set of data ever assembled, most of which is publicly accessible for free. However, this data is not easily usable. It is embedded within the structure and style of websites and needs to be carefully extracted. Web scraping is becoming increasingly useful as a means to gather and make sense of the wealth of information available online.This book is the ultimate guide to using the latest features of Python 3.x to scrape data from websites. In the early chapters, youll see how to extract data from static web pages. Youll learn to use caching with databases and files to save time and manage the load on servers. After covering the basics, youll get hands-on practice building a more sophisticated crawler using browsers, crawlers, and concurrent scrapers.Youll determine when and how to scrape data from a JavaScript-dependent website using PyQt and Selenium. Youll get a better understanding of how to submit forms on complex websites protected by CAPTCHA. Youll find out how to automate these actions with Python packages such as mechanize. Youll also learn how to create class-based scrapers with Scrapy libraries and implement your learning on real websites.By the end of the book, you will have explored testing websites with scrapers, remote scraping, best practices, working with images, and many other relevant topics.Style and approachThis hands-on guide is full of real-life examples and solutions starting simple and then progressively becoming more complex. Each chapter in this book introduces a problem and then provides one or more possible solutions.

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First published: October 2015

Second edition: May 2017

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About the Authors

Katharine Jarmul is a data scientist and Pythonista based in Berlin, Germany. She runs a data science consulting company, Kjamistan, that provides services such as data extraction, acquisition, and modelling for small and large companies. She has been writing Python since 2008 and scraping the web with Python since 2010, and has worked at both small and large start-ups who use web scraping for data analysis and machine learning. When she's not scraping the web, you can follow her thoughts and activities via Twitter (@kjam) or on her blog: https://blog.kjamistan.com.

Richard Lawson is from Australia and studied Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. Since graduating, he built a business specializing in web scraping while travelling the world, working remotely from over 50 countries. He is a fluent Esperanto speaker, conversational in Mandarin and Korean, and active in contributing to and translating open source software. He is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Oxford University and in his spare time enjoys developing autonomous drones. You can find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardpenman.

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Dimitrios Kouzis-Loukas has over fifteen years of experience providing software systems to small and big organisations. His most recent projects are typically distributed systems with ultra-low latency and high-availability requirements. He is language agnostic, yet he has a slight preference for C++ and Python. A firm believer in open source, he hopes that his contributions will benefit individual communities as well as all of humanity.

Lazar Telebak is a freelance web developer specializing in web scraping, crawling, and indexing web pages using Python libraries/frameworks.

He has worked mostly on a projects that deal with automation and website scraping, crawling and exporting data to various formats including: CSV, JSON, XML, TXT and databases such as: MongoDB, SQLAlchemy, Postgres.

Lazar also has experience of fronted technologies and languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery.

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Preface

The internet contains the most useful set of data ever assembled, largely publicly accessible for free. However this data is not easily re-usable. It is embedded within the structure and style of websites and needs to be extracted to be useful. This process of extracting data from webpages is known as web scraping and is becoming increasingly useful as ever more information is available online.

All code used has been tested with Python 3.4+ and is available for download at https://github.com/kjam/wswp.

What this book covers

, Introduction to Web Scraping, introduces what is web scraping and how to crawl a website.

, Scraping the Data, shows you how to extract data from webpages using several libraries.

, Caching Downloads, teaches how to avoid re downloading by caching results.

, Concurrent Downloading, helps you how to scrape data faster by downloading websites in parallel.

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