Python Web Scraping

Key Features

Book Description

What you will learn

• Extract data from web pages with simple Python programming
• Build a threaded crawler to process web pages in parallel
• Follow links to crawl a website
• Download cache to reduce bandwidth
• Use multiple threads and processes to scrape faster
• Learn how to parse JavaScriptdependent websites
• Interact with forms and sessions
• Solve CAPTCHAs on protected web pages
• Discover how to track the state of a crawl

Who this book is for

This book is aimed at developers who want to use web scraping for legitimate purposes. Prior programming experience with Python would be useful but not essential. Anyone with general knowledge of programming languages should be able to pick up the book and understand the principals involved.