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Note: this book is now available for ordering at Apress with lots of extra content, and titled \"Getting structured data from internet: Running Web Crawlers/Scrapers on a Big Data Production Scale\"

This book will teach you web scraping to quickly get unlimited amounts of free data available on the web in structured format. You'll learn Python scripts to not only to access free APIs to get structured data from websites such as Twitter, but you'll also learn to scrape data from any HTML and Javascript page and convert that into Excel, CSV or SQL database of your choice. We will go beyond the basics of web scraping, and cover advanced topics such as natural language processing and text analytics to extract out top keywords, text summary, names of people, places, email addresses and contact details etc. from a page. All the code used in the book will be available to help you understand the concepts in practice and write your own web scraper.

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Kick off your book project in 3 hours! Live workshop on Zoom. You’ll leave with a real book project, progress on your first chapter, and a clear plan to keep going. Saturday, June 6, 2026. Learn more…

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