Web Scraping with Python

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Ryan Mitchell

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01 Introduction

001 How to learn to stop worrying and love the bot.mp4

00:55

002 What you should know.mp4

01:51

02 Basic Web Scraping

001 What is web scraping .mp4

04:19

002 How the internet works A brief summary.mp4

04:19

003 Hello world with Scrapy.mp4

04:30

004 Challenge Scraping all data on a page.mp4

03:34

005 Solution Scraping all data on a page.mp4

02:45

03 Learning to Crawl

001 Crawling a website.mp4

06:26

002 Recording data.mp4

04:17

003 Scrapy settings file.mp4

03:53

004 Structuring your scrapers for extensibility reusability.mp4

05:30

005 Challenge Scraping news sites.mp4

01:20

006 Solution Scraping news sites.mp4

03:30

04 Advanced Techniques

001 Submitting a form.mp4

05:52

002 Finding and using hidden APIs.mp4

04:43

003 Site maps and robots.txt.mp4

04:00

004 Challenge Using CNNs sitemap.mp4

01:12

005 Solution Using CNNs sitemap.mp4

03:28

05 Acting Human

001 Logging in.mp4

04:20

002 Browser automation with Selenium.mp4

05:15

003 Interacting with a page.mp4

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06 Conclusion

001 Next steps.mp4

02:25

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Instructor Ryan Mitchell teaches the practice of web scraping using the Python programming language. Ryan helps you understand how a human browsing the web is different from a web scraper. She introduces the Chrome developer tools and how to use them to examine network calls. Ryan shows you how to install Scrapy with pip and how to write some "Hello, World" code to scrape a simple web page. She covers how to use the Scrapy LinkExtractor to find internal links on a web page, then demonstrates how to configure Scrapy and the ItemPipeline to write data to various file formats. Ryan walks you through best practices for organizing your projects, writing reusable parsers, and future-proofing your spiders. She explains how APIs work and how they can be used to retrieve data directly. Ryan explores headers and cookies, then goes into browser automation and how to integrate Selenium with Scrapy. In conclusion, she offers ideas to continue your studies in computer science and think creatively about automation.

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Masters in software engineering with 14 years of professional programming experience. Speaker (Data Day Seattle and Texas, DEFCON, various Boston-area meetup groups), educator, and runner of workshops about web scraping, application security, and data science. Author of Instant Web Scraping with Java (Packt Publishing, https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/instant-web-scraping-java-instant) and Web Scraping with Python (O'Reilly, June 2015, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034391.do). WsWP was translated into 6 languages, with a second edition released in March 2018. I also dabble in academia. Helped design course content at Northeastern, taught a data science course at Olin College of Engineering (both in Fall 2017) as well as a web development course for adult education at the Boston Public Library (Spring 2017). Four LinkedIn Learning courses, including one currently in progress and scheduled to be released Q1 2022

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