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Published inJan 2019
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Vincent Smith
Vincent Smith
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Vincent Smith

Vincent Smith has been a software engineer for 10 years, having worked in various fields from health and IT to machine learning, and large-scale web scrapers. He has worked for both large-scale Fortune 500 companies and start-ups alike and has sharpened his skills from the best of both worlds. While obtaining a degree in electrical engineering, he learned the foundations of writing good code through his Java courses. These basics helped spur his career in software development early in his professional career in order to provide support for his team. He fell in love with the process of teaching computers how to behave and set him on the path he still walks today.
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You can see that there are various ways of extracting data from HTML pages using different tools. Basic string searches and regex searches can collect information using very simple techniques, but there are cases where more structured query languages are needed. XPath provides great searching capabilities by assuming the document is XML-formatted and can cover generic searches. CSS selectors are the simplest way to search for and extract data from HTML documents and provide many helpful features that are HTML-specific.

In Chapter 5, Web Scraping Navigation, we will look at the best ways to crawl the internet efficiently and safely.

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Published in: Jan 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789615708

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Vincent Smith

Vincent Smith has been a software engineer for 10 years, having worked in various fields from health and IT to machine learning, and large-scale web scrapers. He has worked for both large-scale Fortune 500 companies and start-ups alike and has sharpened his skills from the best of both worlds. While obtaining a degree in electrical engineering, he learned the foundations of writing good code through his Java courses. These basics helped spur his career in software development early in his professional career in order to provide support for his team. He fell in love with the process of teaching computers how to behave and set him on the path he still walks today.
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