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Learning Data Mining with Python, - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126787
Pages 358 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Getting Started with Data Mining Classifying with scikit-learn Estimators Predicting Sports Winners with Decision Trees Recommending Movies Using Affinity Analysis Features and scikit-learn Transformers Social Media Insight using Naive Bayes Follow Recommendations Using Graph Mining Beating CAPTCHAs with Neural Networks Authorship Attribution Clustering News Articles Object Detection in Images using Deep Neural Networks Working with Big Data Next Steps...

Extracting text from arbitrary websites


The links that we get from reddit go to arbitrary websites run by many different organizations. To make it harder, those pages were designed to be read by a human, not a computer program. This can cause a problem when trying to get the actual content/story of those results, as modern websites have a lot going on in the background. JavaScript libraries are called, style sheets are applied, advertisements are loaded using AJAX, extra content is added to sidebars, and various other things are done to make the modern web page a complex document. These features make the modern Web what it is, but make it difficult to automatically get good information from!

Finding the stories in arbitrary websites

To start with, we will download the full web page from each of these links and store them in our data folder, under a raw subfolder. We will process these to extract the useful information later on. This caching of results ensures that we don't have to continuously...

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