Have you ever spent hours trying to gather high-quality data from specific websites, and wondered how you could extract this data programmatically and use it within your own applications? In this course, Crawling the Web with Python 3 and Scrapy 2, you will gain the ability to write spiders that can extract data from the web, using Python and Visual Studio Code, through an advanced yet easy-to-use framework called Scrapy. First, you will learn what scraping and crawling are, and explore all its implications. Next, you will discover how to scaffold a Scrapy project and write spiders. Finally, you will explore how to influence how spiders crawl websites and extract data in different formats. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge on how to use Scrapy with Python, to programmatically crawl and scrape data from any website.
Author Name: Ed Freitas
Author Description:
Eduardo is a technology enthusiast, software architect and customer success advocate. He’s designed enterprise .NET solutions that extract, validate and automate critical business processes such as Accounts Payable and Mailroom solutions for all types of organizations. He’s designed and supported production systems for global names such as Coca Cola, Enel, Pirelli, Fiat-Chrysler, Xerox and many others. He’s a well-known specialist in the Enterprise Content Management market segment, specifically… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Extracting Data from the Web – Core Concepts
  27mins
• Scaffolding and Running Your First Scrapy Web Crawler Project
  16mins
• Achieving Common Spider Behaviors Using Built-in Classes
  24mins
• Influencing Scrapy Crawling
  15mins
• Scrapy Outcome and Data Export
  5mins