Scraping
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How to Use Zyte Smart Proxy with Scrapy and Splash
Learn how to scrape JavaScript webpages with a smart proxy In this post, we will introduce how to use the Zyte Smart proxy with Splash which is integrated with the Scrapy web scraping framework. We will learn how to set up the Zyte smart proxy, how to use it with Splash, and how to set up… Continue reading
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How to Use Splash with Proxies for Scraping JavaScript Webpages
Learn different ways to use proxies for web scraping with Splash In web scraping, we often need to use proxies because of IP blocking or geolocation-sensitive data which means the scraped data can change depending on the geolocations of the IPs making the requests. It is straightforward to specify proxies for regular web scraping. However, when… Continue reading
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How to Scrape JavaScript Webpages with Splash, Requests, and lxml in Python
Learn a simple way to get data from JavaScript websites Splash is a JavaScript rendering service developed by Scrapinghub, the same company that develops the popular Scraping framework Scrapy. It is particularly useful for scraping web pages that are created by JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, etc. This is challenging if not impossible with… Continue reading
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How to run Scrapy spiders in your Python program
We have previously introduced how to build a scraping project with Scrapy and MongoDB. Normally you would run the spiders with the scrapy crawl command. And you wouldn’t just run them once but would schedule them to run repeatedly in order to constantly fetch new data. Scraping jobs can be scheduled simply by CRON jobs,… Continue reading
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How to build a scraping project with Scrapy and MongoDB
Scrapy is a versatile and powerful web scraping framework that can be used to crawl websites and extract structured data from web pages. It is suitable for large scraping projects where many websites or many pages need to be scraped. In this article, we will demonstrate how to use Scrapy to crawl the whole quotes… Continue reading
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How to scrape JavaScript webpages using Selenium in Python
Due to the increasing popularity of modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, and Vue, more and more websites are now built dynamically with JavaScript. This poses a challenge for web scraping because the HTML markup is not available in the source code. Therefore, we cannot scrape these JavaScript webpages directly and need to render… Continue reading
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How to scrape JavaScript webpages using ProxyCrawl in Python
Due to the increasing popularity of modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, and Vue, more and more websites are now built dynamically with JavaScript. This poses a challenge for web scraping because the HTML markup is not available in the source code. Therefore, we cannot scrape these JavaScript webpages directly and need to render… Continue reading
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Simple Web Scraping Using requests, Beautiful Soup, and lxml in Python
When it comes to web scraping in Python, the first package we think about is Scrapy. However, Scrapy is more suitable for larger scraping projects. Besides, there is a learning curve for Scrapy, which takes time. For simple scraping issues where you only need to get data from a single webpage directly, it can be… Continue reading