Questions tagged [web-scraping]
Web scraping is the use of a program to simulate human interaction with a web server or to extract specific information from a web page.
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Extracting email from a webpage using Scrapy
I am beginner in web scraping. It is highly appreciated if someone could give me an explanation where is my silly mistake. Thank you Sir.
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How to make loops in scrapy? [on hold]
I'm scraping a webpage of Dmoz site. I want to make a loop in functions because the for loop which I am using in every function, I will have to put again and again ...
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Simple Web Crawler for Small Sites
This script is my web crawlerfor small sites. Can you possibly review it for best coding practices?
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ArXiV Technical Paper API Github Repo
My name is Ethan and I am trying to build an API for scaping technical papers to use for developers. Right now it only works for ArXiV but I would greatly appreciate some mentoring or a code review of ...
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Return different types from web scraper method
Application Logic
The software take odds data from an internet site and store them inside my own database, this application is basically a scraper.
There are different types of odds, eg:
FullTime
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Web scraping job postings from Facebook
I built a web scraper to pull a list of jobs on Facebook and other websites but want to break up the code into functions that I can reuse for other websites. This structure is working but I think it ...
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Data retrieval from Dynamic HTML page with time-out (Web scraping w. Python)
The HTML page shows list of a friend network of a person (each Name has anchor <a> tag w. link to list of friend network). Since the page has a timer, I've ...
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Batch retrieve web titles from URLs
This working script reads a list of URLs from one or more text files,
and for each, retrieves the page title from the Internet
and appends the results in the format
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Web scraper for football data with three very similar methods
Application Logic
I wrote a web scraper that store some football data inside my database. Those data need to be update if 7 days are passed since the last update.
I have three types of record:
Team
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Python webscraper to get property info from Tripadvisor
I'm very much a beginner at programming, and hoping to get some advice!
I'm having some trouble with a tripadvisor scraper being slow, and have identified the part of my code that is taking a while. ...
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Scraper to grab a Stack Overflow profile name
I've created a script in Python to log into stackoverflow.com using credentials and fetch the profilename once logged in. I've tried to do it using class. I created the methods within that class in ...
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Data Scraping Using VBA
I have below code, which fetch data from a Intranet. But its taking more time to fetch data.can someone help me to modify the code to increase the performance. Thanks In Advance
Note-I haven't posted ...
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Web-scraping C.R. Laurence product catalog
In the last couple of days I've tried to play around with some scraping using XPATHs and Python to consolidate my knowledge (since it's been some time). I did this on a simple website which doesn't ...
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NodeJs crawler for recipes
Here is my try on a crawler made in nodeJs with cheerio, I made it with the idea in mind to use it in a future project I wanna make. Here is the git link: https://github.com/Just4lol/CookCrawler
If ...
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PHP script that writes a JSON file with iextrading API data
iextrading has two APIs (v1, v2) which provide financial market data. Following script records a JSON file with their equity information (using a CRON job).
Would you be kind and review it for any ...
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Basic Kibana/Elasticsearch Search - Powershell
I am traditionally a Java/Backend Developer, and have recently been spending a lot of time dealing with issues that higher tiers of support should be able to handle themselves. To assist them with ...
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NFL data scraper
I made a Python 3 class that scrapes data from Pro Football Reference. It uses requests and beautifulsoup4 to gather the data ...
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Downloading multiple urls with aiohttp Python 3
I am trying to use aiohttp library in python to download information from url. I have about 300 000 urls. They are saved in file "my_file.txt". When I get web page, I extract pairs of a question and ...
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Handle connection time outs when loading a web page in a c# console app
The aim of the program is to read the yahoo finance website in order to find potentially profitable stocks based on their past performance.
I have some code that works but I think it is of poor ...
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BTC price checker with web scraping, regex and Tkinter GUI
The purpose of this was to practice web scraping, regex and GUI. I use a popular bitcoin website to scrape the names and prices of the top 16 cryptocurrencies. I then create a data frame and make a ...
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Pulls href tags using BeautifulSoup with Python
As if this isn't extremely obvious, I am a new coder.
My code works, but is quite far from ideal. I'm also not sure if there are unnecessary bits, since I've been trying to get this to work for a ...
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Cleaner way of appending data to List in BeautifulSoup
So I've been experimenting various way to get data from different variety of website; as such, between the use of JSON or BeautifulSoup. Currently, I have written a scrapper to collect data such as <...
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Web scraping JSON-data from API put into Dataframe
The web-scraping process currently takes quite a bit of time, and I wonder if I can structure the code otherwise or improve it in any way.
Code looks like this:
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A bot for SaltyBet that watches and records matches
I've been working on a bot that records the result of matches on SaltyBet.com. It uses that data to calculate the probability of winning for fighters of a given match. A fighters probability is based ...
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Scraping Instagram for Hashtag data
Over the past few months, I've been actively using python and I have made a few scripts to scrape #hashtag data from Instagram.
It all started with some basic script I had made early 2017 and I have ...
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Web scraping the titles and descriptions of trending YouTube videos
This scrapes the titles and descriptions of trending YouTube videos and writes them to a CSV file. What improvements can I make?
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Creating a csv file using scrapy
I've created a script using Python in association with Scrapy to parse the movie names and its years spread across multiple pages from a torrent site. My goal here is to write the parsed data in a CSV ...
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A simple web scraper
I've written a simple web scraper in Python. As it is my first venture in Python, I'd like to ask for a code review from more experienced coders. All input is welcome.
A little bit of background:
I'...
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Scraping and printing titles from Craigslist
I've written a very tiny script using class to scrape some titles of products from craigslist. My intention is to make use of __str__() method so that my script can ...
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Making use of a decorator within a python script
I've written a script in python which is able to collect links of posts and then fetch the title of each post by going one layer deep from the target page.
I've applied @get_links decorator which ...
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Implementing lock within a Python script
I've written a script in Python using multiprocessing to handle multiple process at the same time and make the scraping process faster. I've used locking within it to prevent two processes from ...
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Web scraping google trends in python
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Recently I have tried to create a web scraping program to get data from google trends. It uses an RSS feed to do so. My question is as follows:
How can I improve my code such that it is ...
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Parse news content with PHP
I'm using PHP Readability to extract contents from news to get title, description and body like so.
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Creating a python dataframe by parsing JSON API response
In this SO question the OP is unable to scrape a table from a dynamically loaded website. In monitoring the web traffic, via Chrome dev tools, I found that there is an API request made that returns a ...
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Data scraper in Python 3
This was my first attempt at scraping approximately 1800 open datasets from the web. On the first go-around it takes approximately 1 hour to complete. Subsequent iterations only take 4 seconds. I'm ...
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Extract name, address and phone number from some web pages using multiprocessing
I've written a script in Python using the multiprocessing module to scrape values from web pages (one page per subprocess). As I'm very new to ...
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Crawling pages to obtain .htm and .txt files from sec.gov
I am pretty much a python newbie and was looking at this question on StackOverflow.
Whereas the OP was interested in downloading the .htm |.txt files, I was simply ...
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Python webscrape Amazon Music, generate tracklist
So I've been working on a tracklist generator that scrapes from Amazon Music using a url using Python for albums with one artist. I've made uhhh this, I'm really new to this requests and ...
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Python Selenium webscraper for job listing website
I'm a newbie getting into web scrapers. I've made something that works, but it takes hours and hours to get everything I need. I read something about using parallel processes to process the URLs but I ...
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Wrapping a web scraper in a RESTful API
The problem I am looking to solve is wrapping a web scraper in a RESTful API such that it can be called programmatically from another application, frontend or microservice. The overall goal is that ...
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Sourcing content from a webpage in an organized manner
I've written a script in python to grab different title and address from different pages of a website. Firstly the script will ...
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Scrape data from a webpage and store them in a database
I've written a script in python to parse different names ,bubbles and reviews of various ...
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Python web scraper
This is my first attempt at a sizeable amount of code in Python and I've made an attempt to standardize a script into a library so that it can be reused.
However, ...
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Python3.x Download(async) + Process(bs4) + Save(EPUB)
I had a simple webscraper with Beautiful Soup 4 which downloaded novel chapters from a website and converted them to an EPUB file. It was straight and simple imperative programming.
Then I thought, ...
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Oscillate between NextPage and PrevPage to parse a list brutely
There's a well-defensed job-hunting website in China,
I refactored my code which could retrieve data unlimited and effectively
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Scrape data from website into dataframe(s) using Split function
Outline:
This code uses the Split function to extract specific information from the following website: https://www.webscraper.io/test-sites/tables.
The required ...
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Store nested json repsonses in relational database
The goal is to collect market data from a free rest api. The response is in json and size per response is above 1MB. I want to get at least updated data once per minute which means about 24h * 60min * ...
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Scraping urls asynchronous including exception handling
I'm trying to understand how to work with aiohttp and asyncio. The code below retrieves all websites in ...
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Web scraping and downloading manga
I'm new to Python and decided to work on a personal project and make a program that web scrapes and downloads manga. It works as expected, however, I am sure that there is a better way to structure my ...
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Parsing scraped data from html table
I've written a simple python web scraper that parses text from an html table and stores the scraped data in List of dictionaries. The code works and doesn't seem to have any glaring issues performance-...
