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Website Scraping with Python: Using BeautifulSoup and Scrapy

Name: Website Scraping with Python: Using BeautifulSoup and Scrapy
Author: Gábor László Hajba
ISBN: 9781484239254

by Gábor László Hajba

September 2018

Beginner to intermediate

235 pages

4h 14m

English

Apress

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Gábor László HajbaWebsite Scraping with Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3925-4_4

4. Using Scrapy

Gábor László Hajba¹

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Sopron, Hungary

After a lengthy introduction to Beautiful Soup and custom scrapers, it’s time to look at Scrapy: the website scraping tool for Python.

In my opinion, this is the only viable tool available currently for Python, which can handle complex scraping tasks out of the box. You can cache web pages, and add parallelism as you wish; you only need to configure Scrapy properly and write the extraction code.

In this chapter you will learn how to get the most out of Scrapy for the majority of your website scraping projects. You will write the Sainsbury’s extractor, configure Scrapy to create a ...

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4. Using Scrapy

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