Publisher's Synopsis
Closely examine website scraping and data processing: the technique of extracting data from websites in a format suitable for further analysis. You'll review which tools to use, and compare their features and efficiency. Focusing on BeautifulSoup4 and Scrapy, this concise, focused book highlights common problems and suggests solutions that readers can implement on their own.
- Install and implement scraping tools individually and together
- Run spiders to crawl websites for data from the cloud
- Work with emulators and drivers to extract data from scripted sites