18 Feb 2015
I like to use Django as a backend in my scraping scripts. I use it to model the data being scraped with the Django ORM. Then, once the data has been collected, I view the results using the automatic admin interface which is easy to setup in just a few...
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03 Feb 2015
UPDATE 09/27/2018 - The site changed after this article was originally written. I’ve updated the code that waits for
the jobs to load, along with the description in this article.
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16 Jan 2015
Today’s post will cover scraping sites where the pages are dynamically generated from JSON data. Compared to static pages,
scraping pages rendered from JSON is often easier: simply load the JSON string and iterate through each object, extracting
the relevent key/value pairs as you go.
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09 Jan 2015
A common scraping task is to get all of the results returned for every option
in a select menu on a given form.
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08 Dec 2014
Python Mechanize
is a module that provides an API for programmatically browsing web pages and manipulating
HTML forms. BeautifulSoup
is a library for parsing and extracting data from HTML. Together they form a powerful
combination of tools for web scraping.
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