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Practical Web Scraping for Data Science: Best Practices and Examples with Python
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Practical Web Scraping for Data Science: Best Practices and Examples with Python

by Seppe vanden Broucke, Bart Baesens
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
313 pages
6h 43m
English
Apress
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© Seppe vanden Broucke and Bart Baesens 2018
Seppe vanden Broucke and Bart BaesensPractical Web Scraping for Data Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3582-9_5

5. Dealing with JavaScript

Seppe vanden Broucke1  and Bart Baesens2
(1)
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
(2)
Dept of Decision Sci & Info Managem, KU Leuven Dept of Decision Sci & Info Managem, Leuven, Belgium
 

Together with HTML and CSS, JavaScript forms the third and final core building block of the modern web. We’ve already seen JavaScript appearing occasionally throughout this book, and it’s time that we take a closer look at it. As we’ll soon see in this chapter, our sturdy requests plus Beautiful Soup combination is no longer a viable approach to scrape JavaScript-heavy pages. As such, this ...

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