May 2018
Beginner
472 pages
15h 3m
English
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Chapter 22. Data over the network
This chapter covers
- Fetching files via FTP/SFTP, SSH/SCP, and HTTPS
- Getting data via APIs
- Structured data file formats: JSON and XML
- Scraping data
You’ve seen how to deal with text-based data files. In this chapter, you use Python to move data files over the network. In some cases, those files might be text or spreadsheet files, as discussed in chapter 21, but in other cases, they might be in more structured formats and served from REST or SOAP application programming interfaces (APIs). Sometimes, getting the data may mean scraping it from a website. This chapter discusses all of these situations and shows some common use cases.
22.1. Fetching files
Before you can do anything with data files, you have to ...