Top "Scraper" questions

Web scraping is the process of extracting specific information from websites that do not readily provide an API or other methods of automated data retrieval.

XPath:: Get following Sibling

I have following HTML Structure: I am trying to build a robust method to extract second color digest element since …

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BeautifulSoup: extract text from anchor tag

I want to extract: text from following src of the image tag and text of the anchor tag which is …

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How to scrape a website that requires login first with Python

First of all, I think it's worth saying that, I know there are a bunch of similar questions but NONE …

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crawler vs scraper

Can somebody distinguish between a crawler and scraper in terms of scope and functionality.

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scrape websites with infinite scrolling

I have written many scrapers but I am not really sure how to handle infinite scrollers. These days most website …

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Accessing Metacritic API and/or Scraping

Does anybody know where documentation for the Metacritic api is/if it still works. There used to be a Metacritic …

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How to crawl with php Goutte and Guzzle if data is loaded by Javascript?

Many times when crawling we run into problems where content that is rendered on the page is generated with Javascript …

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How can I scrape website content in PHP from a website that requires a cookie login?

My problem is that it doesn't just require a basic cookie, but rather asks for a session cookie, and for …

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BeautifulSoup: Strip specified attributes, but preserve the tag and its contents

I'm trying to 'defrontpagify' the html of a MS FrontPage generated website, and I'm writing a BeautifulSoup script to do …

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Crawling LinkedIn while authenticated with Scrapy

So I've read through the Crawling with an authenticated session in Scrapy and I am getting hung up, I am 99% …

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