Practical Web Scraping for Data Science

Best Practices and Examples with Python



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Price$29.92 - $35.33
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AuthorsSeppe vanden Broucke, Bart Baesens
PublisherApress
Published2018
Pages306
LanguageEnglish
FormatPaper book / ebook (PDF)
ISBN-101484235819
ISBN-139781484235812
EBook Hardcover Paperback

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 operates, to ensure full understanding. The authors recommend web scraping as a powerful tool for any data scientist's arsenal, as many data science projects start by obtaining an appropriate data set.

Starting with a brief overview on scraping and real-life use cases, the authors explore the core concepts of HTTP, HTML, and CSS to provide a solid foundation. Along with a quick Python primer, they cover Selenium for JavaScript-heavy sites, and web crawling in detail. The book finishes with a recap of best practices and a collection of examples that bring together everything you've learned and illustrate various data science use cases.

Leverage well-established best practices and commonly-used Python packages; Handle today's web, including JavaScript, cookies, and common web scraping mitigation techniques; Understand the managerial and legal concerns regarding web scraping.


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