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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 Getting Started with Scraping Data Acquisition and Extraction Processing Data Working with Images, Audio, and other Assets Scraping - Code of Conduct Scraping Challenges and Solutions Text Wrangling and Analysis Searching, Mining and Visualizing Data Creating a Simple Data API Creating Scraper Microservices with Docker Making the Scraper as a Service Real Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding an API to find the skills for a job listing

In this recipe, we add an additional operation to our API which will allow us to request the skills associated with a job listing. This demonstrates a means of being able to retrieve only a subset of the data instead of the entire content of the listing. While we will only do this for the skills, the concept can be easily extended to any other subsets of the data, such as the location of the job, title, or almost any other content that makes sense for the user of your API.

Getting ready

The first thing that we will do is add a scraping function to the sojobs module. This function will be named get_job_listing_skills. The following is the code for this function:

def get_job_listing_skills...
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