One of the most popular library for web scraping with Python is Beautiful Soup. Beautiful Soup is a Python library for extracting data from HTML and XML documents. It converts the file into a parsed tree structure that can be further used to traverse, search and identify elements to extract and scrape data from. A … Read more
Python has become increasingly useful in the world of data extraction, specifically in web scraping. Whenever you start a web scraping project, choosing the right tool is very important. If you’re familiar with jQuery, PyQuery is an excellent choice due to its similar syntax and intuitive nature. What Is PyQuery? PyQuery is a jQuery-like library … Read more
As a blogger and developer, staying informed about the latest trends and topics in your niche is essential. Getting a complete and easy to view list of what your competitors write will certainly be useful. However, manually scouring through numerous blog pages can be time-consuming. Fortunately, there’s a more efficient solution : scraping sitemaps using … Read more
Python is very powerful for web scraping. So, let’s scrape a website. Scraping relies heavily on the website’s structure (div, class names, etc). But, websites tend to change their structure overtime. So, in this tutorial we will use a sandbox website that is made specifically for scraping practice, scrapethissite.com which provides a list of countries … Read more
Web scraping is very useful but can be a bit daunting, especially for beginners. So, in this tutorial, I will show you a simple and beginner-friendly method to scrape a website with NodeJS. What we’ll learn In this tutorial, we will learn how to scrape a website with NodeJS. For practice, we will scrape books.toscrape.com. … Read more