Write Python scripts and crawlers to harvest delicious data from across the web. Fill your arsenal with powerful libraries such as BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, and Selenium to ensure the tool fits the job. Learn how to make inconspicuous web requests to remain undetected and various other methods to parse data on a large scale without being stopped.
What You'll Learn
- Making stealthy web requests to dodge countermeasures.
- Transverse DOM structures to surgically extract data.
- Leverage structured data to easily parse powerful metadata.
- Build crawlers on a large scale.
- Crack well-protected data by automating browser sessions with Selenium.
For those who...
- Have a basic understanding of Python.
- Have a specific need for a third party's data.
- Want to build something fun.