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Practical Web Scraping for Data Science: Best Practices and Examples with Python
Published 15 hours ago
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A comprehensive guide to web scraping techniques for data scientists. It covers foundational concepts like HTTP, HTML, and CSS, detailing how web browsers interact with servers and display content. The text explores practical applications using Python libraries such as requests, BeautifulSoup, and Selenium, demonstrating how to extract data from various websites, handle JavaScript, and implement web crawling strategies. Furthermore, the source addresses crucial managerial and legal considerations associated with web scraping, including ethical best practices, potential legal risks like copyright infringement and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and how scraping fits into the broader data science workflow. The book concludes with diverse real-world examples and advanced topics, ranging from cracking CAPTCHAs to building social graphs and performing sentiment analysis on scraped data.
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