Python Web Scraping Cookbook

Untangle your web scraping complexities and access web data with ease using Python scriptsKey FeaturesHands-on recipes for advancing your web scraping skills to expert levelOne-stop solution guide to address complex and challenging web scraping tasks using PythonUnderstand web page structures and collect data from a website with easeBook DescriptionPython 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 todeploy and operate your scraper in the cloud.What you will learnUse a variety of tools to scrape any website and data, including BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium and many moreMaster expression languages, such as XPath and CSS, and regular expressions to extract web dataDeal with scraping traps such as hidden form fields, throttling, pagination, and different status codesBuild robust scraping pipelines with SQS and RabbitMQScrape assets like image media and learn what to do when Scraper fails to runExplore ETL techniques of building a customized crawler, parser, and convert structured and unstructured data from websitesDeploy and run your scraper as a service in AWS Elastic Container ServiceWho this book is forThis book is ideal for Python programmers, web administrators, security professionals, and anyone who wants to perform web analytics. Familiarity with Python and basic understanding of web scraping will be useful to make the best of this book.