Pradumna Milind Panditrao - A Python Guide for Web Scraping

My beloved Parents:
Shri Milind Panditrao, Smita Panditrao
&
My wife Suchitra and My Daughter Rajvika

I am Pradumna Panditrao. I have done Masters in Networking & Telecommunication. I have a total of 8+ years of experience in various domains like Software Development, DevOps Automation tools, Data mining Crawling tools, Cloud Technologies, Hardware Profiling. I have published a paper on Cognitive Radio, 4G Technology Algorithms. Currently working as Sr. Software Engineer as DevOps tool Developer. I have given Embedded software development Lectures and Lab demo sessions at BitsPilani Goa in 2014-2015

Vibhu Bansal is an entrepreneur and founder of ITSYS Solutions. He has about 22 years experience in software development. From an early age, he had an interest in data and analytics and worked on numerous MIS applications for private sector and government organizations in India. Under him, ITSYS Solutions his been providing web scraping services since 2007 to businesses in North America & Europe.

There are a few people I want to thank for the continued and ongoing support they have given me during the writing of this book. First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents for continuously encouraging me for writing the book I could have never completed this book without their support.

I am grateful to the course and the companies which gave me support throughout the learning process of web scraping and very important to learn the tools related to web scraping.

Thank you for the all hidden support provided. I gratefully acknowledged Mr. Vibhu Bansal for his kind technical scrutiny for this book.

My gratitude also goes to the team at BPB Publications for being supportive enough to provide me quite a long time to finish the first part of the book and also allow me to publish the book in multiple parts, since image processing, being a vast and very active area of research, it was impossible to deep-dive into different class of problems in a single book, especially by not making it too voluminous.

This book covers many different aspects of web scraping, the importance of automation of web scraping. This book also introduces the importance of web scraping in the field of real time industry. It shows how the data is important for the industries. This book solves the basic understanding towards web scraping / crawling in the data world. It also gives importance for python learning. So that pythons basic concepts get refreshed. This book gives information about the usefulness of Python in web scraping as well.

This book takes a practical approach for web scraping learners. It covers few realtime industry examples as well. It will cover information such as Python Basically used for automation, machine learning. It can be used for easy data manipulating and transforming. Used in different domains for data mining purposes. You can design API access frameworks for end to end automation in different domains like finance, retails etc.

This book is divided into 10 chapters. They will cover Python basics, basics and advance in web scraping, why python is better for web scraping, real time example in web scraping etc. So learners can get more interest in web scraping tools as well.The details are listed below.

Python. Differnece in Python version 2.x vs 3.x. Will give details about Installation of Python on different Operating Systems.

will cover Python Use cases, will explain in the case. Give basic details about Python syntax. When to use and what to use in case of different varieties of examples.

will cover As Python is Object-oriented Language, we can use it as per requirement. We can create the different functions, classes as per the requirement. Python is also used for test automation. It can be used for test automation and design framework for test automation.

will cover information such as Python Basically used for automation, machine learning. It can be used for easy data manipulating and transforming. Used in different domains for data mining purposes. You can design API access frameworks for end to end automation in different domains like finance, retails etc.

Web Scraping, Basically web scraping is used for extracting data from different sites. There are many parts of web scraping such as web mining, data mining, web indexing. So collected data can be shown in the format of convenient users.

will cover information as, Industries need data for different types of analysis from the web. So In that scenario web scraping is very useful

explains, Python is one of the Programming languages. Everyone thinks of why python only for web scraping.

• Large no. of Libraries
• Easy to use
• Dynamically type