The Ultimate Guide to Web Scraping
The Ultimate Guide to Web Scraping
About the Book
Hopefully you learned a thing or two from my article I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit. Due to the popularity of that article — almost 100,000 views — I decided to write an even more detailed survey of the field, full of all the web scraping tips and tricks I've picked up.
The goal of the book — The Ultimate Guide to Web Scraping — is to hone your skills and help you become master craftsman in the art of web scraping.
We'll talk about the reasons why web scraping is a valid way to harvest information — despite common complaints. We'll look at the various ways that information is sent from a website to a client's computer, and how you can intercept and parse it. We'll also look at common traps and anti-scraping tactics and how you might be able to thwart them.
If you have any specific questions, just mention me on Twitter and I'd be happy to help!
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Table of Contents
- Introduction to Web Scraping
- Web Scraping as a Legitimate Data Collection Tool
- Understand Web Technologies: What Your Browser is Doing Behind the Scenes
- Pattern Discovery: Finding the Right URLs that Return the Data You’re Looking For
- Pattern Discovery: Finding the Structure in an HTML Document
- Hands On: Building a Simple Web Scraper with Python
- Hands On: Storing the Scraped Data & Keeping Track of Progress
- Scraping Data that’s Not in the Response HTML
- Avoiding Common Scraping Pitfalls, Good Scraping Etiquette & Other Best Practices
- How to Troubleshoot and Fix Your Web Scraping Code Without Pulling Your Hair Out
- A Handy, Easy-To-Reference Web Scraping Cheat Sheet
- Web Scraping Resources: A Beginner-Friendly Sandbox and Online Course
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