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New version by Apress

In 2018 I teamed-up with Apress and we released an updated version of this book. You can find it on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Dkl4gI

This book is the follow-up of my previous one: \"XML processing and website scraping in Java\". There I looked at ways and tools to process XML and HTML in Java, did some performace comparisons and introduced some new programming concepts to make things even better.

In this book I take a closer look at website scraping with the two tools used nowadays: BeautifulSoup and Scrapy.

I create the sample application from the Java book -- now in Python, use the two tools for parsing, show examples how to export CSV files in Python.

As a bonus I will compare the two tools for their runtime, try to tweak where possible and I will give a quick introduction on plotting the runtimes as charts.

Until it is finished, you can buy the book for a discounted price. The final book will be around $35.

I will write about the following topics in this book:

BeautifulSoup
Scrapy
Performance comparison
Plotting in Python
Functional programming with Python
Parallel code execution with Python
Sample application to gather Amazon data
Other real-life projects (source code coming soon into the package)
Update for Scrapy's release and Python 3 (coming soon)

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Kick off your book project, get started with GhostAI, get better at marketing, or spend the day doing all three! Free live workshops on Zoom. Saturday, June 27, 2026.

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