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Seppe vanden Broucke and Bart BaesensPractical Web Scraping for Data Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3582-9_9

9. Examples

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
 

This chapter includes several larger examples of web scrapers. Contrary to most of the examples showcased during the previous chapters, the examples here serve a twofold purpose. First, they showcase some more examples using real-life websites instead of a curated, safe environment. The reason why we haven’t used many real-life examples so far is due to the dynamic nature of the web. It might be that the ...

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