Java Web Scraping Handbook
Java Web Scraping Handbook
About the Book
Web scraping or crawling is the art of fetching data from a third party website by downloading and parsing the HTML code to extract the data you want. It can be hard. From bad HTML code to heavy Javascript use and anti-bot techniques, it is often tricky. Lots of companies use it to obtain knowledge concerning competitor prices, news aggregation, mass email collect…
This book will teach you how to extract data from any website, how to deal with AJAX / Javascript heavy websites, break captchas, deploy your scrapers in the cloud and many other advanced techniques.
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Table of Contents
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Introduction to Web scraping
- Web Scraping VS APIs
- Web scraping use cases
- What you will learn in this book
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Web fundamentals
- HyperText Transfer Protocol
- HTML and the Document Object Model
- Web extraction process
- Xpath
- Regular Expression
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Extracting the data you want
- Tools
- Let’s scrape Hacker News
- Go further
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Handling forms
- Form Theory
- Case study: Hacker News authentication
- File Upload
- Other forms
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Dealing with Javascript
- Javascript 101
- Headless Chrome
- Selenium API
- Infinite scroll
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Captcha solving, PDF parsing, and OCR
- Captcha solving
- PDF parsing
- Optical Caracter Recognition
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Stay under cover
- Headers
- Proxies
- TOR: The Onion Router
- Tips
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Cloud scraping
- Serverless
- Deploying an Azure function
- Conclusion
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