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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

By : Anish Chapagain
Book Image

Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

By: Anish Chapagain

Overview of this book

Web scraping is an essential technique used in many organizations to gather valuable data from web pages. This book will enable you to delve into web scraping techniques and methodologies. The book will introduce you to the fundamental concepts of web scraping techniques and how they can be applied to multiple sets of web pages. You'll use powerful libraries from the Python ecosystem such as Scrapy, lxml, pyquery, and bs4 to carry out web scraping operations. You will then get up to speed with simple to intermediate scraping operations such as identifying information from web pages and using patterns or attributes to retrieve information. This book adopts a practical approach to web scraping concepts and tools, guiding you through a series of use cases and showing you how to use the best tools and techniques to efficiently scrape web pages. You'll even cover the use of other popular web scraping tools, such as Selenium, Regex, and web-based APIs. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to efficiently scrape the web using different techniques with Python and other popular tools.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introduction to Web Scraping
3
Section 2: Beginning Web Scraping
8
Section 3: Advanced Concepts
13
Section 4: Conclusion

Introduction to secure web

The implementation of web-based security features (or features that are used to maintain a secure state of access) to access information is rapidly growing, day by day. With ever-growing web-based technologies, websites and web applications deploy secure mechanisms that are basic or highly sophisticated.

Secure web-enabled content is often challenging from a crawling and scraping perspective. In this section, you will be introduced to a few basic security-based concepts. We will explore these concepts, along with their implementation, in the upcoming sections.

The following sections will talk about a few security-enabled concepts or concepts that are vulnerable to security. These concepts can be implemented independently and collaboratively in websites using a number of underlying tools or measures.

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