Getting Started with Python Web Scraping: Extracting Data From Websites for Business Insights [Video]

Name: Getting Started with Python Web Scraping [Video]
Brand: Packt
SKU: 9781787283244
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By Charles Clayton

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Video Mar 2017 1 hours 36 minutes 1st Edition

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Product Details

Publication date : Mar 31, 2017

Length 1 hours 36 minutes

Edition : 1st Edition

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781787283244

Category :

Data

Languages :

Python (Intermediate)

Concepts :

Data Mining

Tools :

Selenium Webdriver (Beginner) , BeautifulSoup (Beginner)

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Key benefits

Get hands-on solutions that will take your web scraping skills in Python to the next level
This is your one-stop solution for common and not-so-common issues while performing web scraping with Python
Understand a web page’s structure and collect meaningful data from a website with ease

Description

Python is a high-level programming language used for general-purpose programming. It has a design philosophy which emphasizes code readability and a syntax which allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than possible in languages such as C++ or Java. This video course is a rich collection of recipes that will come in handy when you are scraping a website using Python, addressing your usual and unusual problems while scraping websites by diving deep into the capabilities of Python’sweb scraping tools such as Selenium, BeautifulSoup, and urllib2. The video will start with showing how to use selenium module for scraping by setting up a web driver, debugging with the Console and downloading files and streamlining with a Headless Browser (PhantomJS). The video will then move on to demonstrate how to do parsing with Beautifulsoup which would include introduction to the BeautifulSoupObjects, Nested Selectors and Regular Expressions Basics and how to do UTF-8 Encoding. The video will finally end by showing how to do fetching with urlib2 by using the developer tools Network tab, how to bypass the browser and retrieve files. By The end of this video, you will be successfully able to understand the in-depth capabilities of python web scraping tools.

What you will learn

[*]Use the Selenium module and scrape with Selenium [*]Find out how to set up a web driver [*]Perform debugging with the console and download files [*]Learn to work with Nested selectors and regular expression basics [*] Discover how to perform parsing with BeautifulSoup [*]Understand authentication with Wireshark. [*]Master the use of URL Query Strings and HTTP Requests (GET and POST) [*] Implement streamlining with headless browser