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Python Web Scraping Cookbook

Python Web Scraping Cookbook

By : Michael Heydt
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Python Web Scraping Cookbook

Python Web Scraping Cookbook

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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.
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Storing data using MySQL

MySQL is a freely available, open source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). In this example, we will read the planets data from the website and store it into a MySQL database.

Getting ready

You will need to have access to a MySQL database. You can install one locally installed, in the cloud, within a container. I am using a locally installed MySQL server and have the root password set to mypassword. You will also need to install the MySQL python library. You can do this with pip install mysql-connector-python.

  1. The first thing to do is to connect to the database using the mysql command at the terminal:
# mysql -uroot -pmypassword
mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line...
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