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Published inOct 2015
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Richard Penman
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Richard Lawson is from Australia and studied Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. Since graduating, he built a business specializing in web scraping while travelling the world, working remotely from over 50 countries. He is a fluent Esperanto speaker, conversational in Mandarin and Korean, and active in contributing to and translating open source software. He is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Oxford University and in his spare time enjoys developing autonomous drones.
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Gap has a well structured website with a Sitemap to help web crawlers locate their updated content. If we use the techniques from Chapter 1, Introduction to Web Scraping, to investigate a website, we would find their robots.txt file at http://www.gap.com/robots.txt, which contains a link to this Sitemap:

Sitemap: http://www.gap.com/products/sitemap_index.xml

Here are the contents of the linked Sitemap file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    <sitemap>
        <loc>http://www.gap.com/products/sitemap_1.xml</loc>
        <lastmod>2015-03-03</lastmod>
    </sitemap>
    <sitemap>
        <loc>http://www.gap.com/products/sitemap_2.xml</loc>
        <lastmod>2015-03-03</lastmod>
    </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

As shown here, this Sitemap link is just an index and contains links to other Sitemap files. These other Sitemap files then...

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Published in: Oct 2015Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782164364

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Richard Penman

Richard Lawson is from Australia and studied Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. Since graduating, he built a business specializing in web scraping while travelling the world, working remotely from over 50 countries. He is a fluent Esperanto speaker, conversational in Mandarin and Korean, and active in contributing to and translating open source software. He is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Oxford University and in his spare time enjoys developing autonomous drones.
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