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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636211
Pages 324 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Anish Chapagain Anish Chapagain
Profile icon Anish Chapagain

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:Python and Web Scraping
2. Chapter 1: Web Scraping Fundamentals 3. Chapter 2: Python Programming for Data and Web 4. Part 2:Beginning Web Scraping
5. Chapter 3: Searching and Processing Web Documents 6. Chapter 4: Scraping Using PyQuery, a jQuery-Like Library for Python 7. Chapter 5: Scraping the Web with Scrapy and Beautiful Soup 8. Part 3:Advanced Scraping Concepts
9. Chapter 6: Working with the Secure Web 10. Chapter 7: Data Extraction Using Web APIs 11. Chapter 8: Using Selenium to Scrape the Web 12. Chapter 9: Using Regular Expressions and PDFs 13. Part 4:Advanced Data-Related Concepts
14. Chapter 10: Data Mining, Analysis, and Visualization 15. Chapter 11: Machine Learning and Web Scraping 16. Part 5:Conclusion
17. Chapter 12: After Scraping – Next Steps and Data Analysis 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Deploying a web crawler

We have successfully implemented a crawler and extracted and exported data to external files using Scrapy (with the help of the scrapy CLI tool). This process has been done on a local machine or Personal Computer (PC). Deploying a crawler online or on a server is the only option for most developers. The deployed crawler benefits from multiple features of the server (such as having access anytime and anywhere, speed, and ample storage), as well as its dynamic nature.

We can choose any cloud platform, web hosting server, or internet-based service to upload our code and execute it. Most of these services are not 100% free; we have to pay a certain amount for the desired configuration and services.

Scrapy, from the beginning, has been famous for its architecture. There were and are still multiple web-based platforms that allow users to run their Scrapy-based projects. One of these is Scrapinghub (now Zyte). Zyte Scrapy Cloud (https://www.zyte.com/scrapy-cloud...

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