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Learning Web Scraping with JavaScript [Video]

By : Mustapha Mekhatria
Book Image

Learning Web Scraping with JavaScript [Video]

By: Mustapha Mekhatria

Overview of this book

<p>This video is the ultimate guide to using the latest features of JavaScript and Node.js to scrape data from websites. In the early chapters, you'll see how to extract data from static web pages. After covering the basics, you'll get hands-on practice building more sophisticated scripts. You'll determine when and how to scrape data from a JavaScript-dependent website using JavaScript scraping libraries. You'll find out how to automate these actions with JavaScript packages such as Cheerio and CasperJS.</p> <p>By the end of the book, you will have explored testing websites with scrapers, remote scraping, best practices, working with images, and many other relevant topics.</p> <p>The code bundle for this video course is available at -&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learning-Web-Scraping-with-JavaScript/" target="_blank">https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learning-Web-Scraping-with-JavaScript/</a></p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p>It is a course that guides you with solutions that start simple and then progressively pick up the pace as the course unfolds. Learn to use web scraping to access unlimited data from any web source in any format. Each section of the course has examples that solve a real-world problem involving hands-on work. Best practices techniques and useful tips/tricks will also be shared during this course.</p>
Table of Contents (5 chapters)
Chapter 3
Scraping Hotel Websites Using CasperJS
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Section 1
Using CasperJS to Scrape Airbnb
This video will show how to scrape Airbnb.com and then save the result in an HTML and a JSON file. - Locate the data - Scrape the website - Save the result in an HTML and a JSON file