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The Data Wrangling Workshop - Second Edition
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The Data Wrangling Workshop - Second Edition

by Brian Lipp, Shubhadeep Roychowdhury, Dr. Tirthajyoti Sarkar, John Wesley Doyle, Harshil Jain, Robert Thas John, Akshay Khare, Nagendra Nagaraj, Samik Sen, Dr. Vlad Sebastian Ionescu
July 2020
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
576 pages
9h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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7. Advanced Web Scraping and Data Gathering

Overview

This chapter will introduce you to the concepts of advanced web scraping and data gathering. It will enable you to use requests and BeautifulSoup to read various web pages and gather data from them. You can perform read operations on XML files and the web using an Application Program Interface (API). You can use regex techniques to scrape useful information from a large and messy text corpus. By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to gather data from web pages, XML files, and APIs.

Introduction

The previous chapter covered how to create a successful data wrangling pipeline. In this chapter, we will build a web scraper that can be used by a data wrangling professional in ...

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