Video Description
Discover power packed solution to scrape any website easily.
About This Video
- Extract data from web pages with simple JavaScript programming
- A hands-on guide to web scraping using CasperJS with solutions to real-world problems
In Detail
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.
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.
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 : Getting Started with Web Scraping (Scraping 101)
- The Course Overview 00:03:03
- Introduction to Web Scraping 00:01:58
- Scraping an Amazon Webpage Using Simple JS Code 00:10:17
- Chapter 2 : Scrape from a Search Engine
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Chapter 3 : Scraping Hotel Websites Using CasperJS
- Using CasperJS to Scrape Airbnb 00:07:49
- Running and Testing the Script 00:02:04
- Best Practices Using CasperJS 00:01:54
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Chapter 4 : Scraping an E-Commerce Website Using Cheerio
- Scraping Amazon.com Using Cheerio 00:01:42
- Setting Up the Project 00:05:47
- Running the Script 00:01:05
- Summary 00:01:33
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Chapter 5 : Saving the Result to S3 (AWS) Using a NodeJS Server
- Web Application to Scrape a Website 00:02:43
- Web Application Script 00:03:07
- Run the Web Application 00:01:53