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Python Web Scraping Cookbook

You're reading from  Python Web Scraping Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787285217
Pages 364 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Michael Heydt Michael Heydt
Profile icon Michael Heydt

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Scraping 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

Determining the type of content for a URL

When performing a GET requests for content from a web server, the web server will return a number of headers, one of which identities the type of the content from the perspective of the web server. In this recipe we learn to use that to determine what the web server considers the type of the content.

Getting ready

We again use the URLUtility class. The code for the recipe is in 04/03_determine_content_type_from_response.py.

How to do it

We proceed as follows:

  1. Execute the script for the recipe. It contains the following code...
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