Practical web scraping for data science best practices and examples with Python

This book provides a complete and modern guide to web scraping, using Python as the programming language, without glossing over important details or best practices. Written with a data science audience in mind, the book explores both scraping and the larger context of web technologies in which it op...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Broucke, Seppe vanden, Baesens, Bart (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified], New York Apress, Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer Science+Business Media New York 2018
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Web Scraping Basics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Web Speaks HTTP
  • 3. Stirring the HTML and CSS Soup
  • Part II: Advanced Web Scraping
  • 4. Delving Deeper in HTTP
  • 5. Dealing with JavaScript
  • 6. From Web Scraping to Web Crawling
  • Part III: Managerial Concerns and Best Practices
  • 7. Managerial and Legal Concerns
  • 8. Closing Topics
  • 9. Examples
  • Includes bibliographical references