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Python Web Scraping Cookbook

By : Michael Heydt
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Python Web Scraping Cookbook

By: Michael Heydt

Overview of this book

Python Web Scraping Cookbook is a solution-focused book that will teach you techniques to develop high-performance scrapers and deal with crawlers, sitemaps, forms automation, Ajax-based sites, caches, and more. You'll explore a number of real-world scenarios where every part of the development/product life cycle will be fully covered. You will not only develop the skills needed to design and develop reliable performance data flows, but also deploy your codebase to AWS. If you are involved in software engineering, product development, or data mining (or are interested in building data-driven products), you will find this book useful as each recipe has a clear purpose and objective. Right from extracting data from the websites to writing a sophisticated web crawler, the book's independent recipes will be a godsend. This book covers Python libraries, requests, and BeautifulSoup. You will learn about crawling, web spidering, working with Ajax websites, paginated items, and more. You will also learn to tackle problems such as 403 errors, working with proxy, scraping images, and LXML. By the end of this book, you will be able to scrape websites more efficiently and able to deploy and operate your scraper in the cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Piecing together n-grams

Much has been written about NLTK being used to identify n-grams within text. An n-gram is a set of words, n words in length, that are common within a document/corpus (occurring 2 or more times). A 2-gram is any two words commonly repeated, a 3-gram is a three word phrase, and so on. We will not look into determining the n-grams in a document. We will focus on reconstructing known n-grams from our token streams, as we will consider those n-grams to be more important to a search result than the 2 or 3 independent words found in any order.

In the domain of parsing job listings, important 2-grams can be things such as Computer Science, SQL Server, Data Science, and Big Data. Additionally, we could consider C# a 2-gram of 'C' and '#', and hence why we might not want to use the regex parser or '#' as punctuation when processing...