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Python Web Scraping Cookbook
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Python Web Scraping Cookbook

by Lazar Telebak, Michael Heydt, Mei Lu
February 2018
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
10h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it

The initial API is implemented in 09/01/api.py. The API itself and the logic of the API is implemented in this single file: api.py. The API can be run in two manners, the first of which is by simply executing the file as a Python script.

The API can then be launched with the following:

python api.py

When run, you will initially see output similar to the following:

Starting the job listing API * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit) * Restarting with statStarting the job listing API * Debugger is active! * Debugger pin code: 362-310-034

This program exposes a REST API on 127.0.0.1:5000, and we can make requests for job listings using a GET request to the path /joblisting/<joblistingid>. We can try this with ...

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