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Python Web Scraping Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Web Scraping Cookbook Over 90 proven recipes to get you scraping with Python, microservices, Docker, and AWS

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Michael Heydt is an independent consultant, programmer, educator, and trainer. He has a passion for learning and sharing his knowledge of new technologies. Michael has worked in multiple industry verticals, including media, finance, energy, and healthcare. Over the last decade, he worked extensively with web, cloud, and mobile technologies and managed user experiences, interface design, and data visualization for major consulting firms and their clients. Michael's current company, Seamless Thingies , focuses on IoT development and connecting everything with everything. Michael is the author of numerous articles, papers, and books, such as D3.js By Example, Instant Lucene. NET, Learning Pandas, and Mastering Pandas for Finance, all by Packt. Michael is also a frequent speaker at .NET user groups and various mobile, cloud, and IoT conferences and delivers webinars on advanced technologies.
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Scraping FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Acquisition and Extraction 3. Processing Data 4. Working with Images, Audio, and other Assets 5. Scraping - Code of Conduct 6. Scraping Challenges and Solutions 7. Text Wrangling and Analysis 8. Searching, Mining and Visualizing Data 9. Creating a Simple Data API 10. Creating Scraper Microservices with Docker 11. Making the Scraper as a Service Real 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Text Wrangling and Analysis

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Installing NLTK
  • Performing sentence splitting
  • Performing tokenization
  • Performing stemming
  • Performing lemmatization
  • Identifying and removing stop words
  • Calculating the frequency distribution of words
  • Identifying and removing rare words
  • Identifying and removing short words
  • Removing punctuation marks
  • Piecing together n-grams
  • Scraping a job listing from StackOverflow
  • Reading and cleaning the description in the job listCreating a word cloud from a StackOverflow job listing
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