The JS loading page is usually scraped by Selenium or another browser emulator. Yet, for a certain shopping website we’ve
found a way to perform a pure Python requests scrape.
Tag: python
We want to share with you how to scrape text and store it as Pandas data frame using BeautifulSoup (Python). The code below works to store html li items in the ‘engine, ‘trans’, ‘colour’ and ‘interior’ columns.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pandas as pd
import requests
main_url = "https://www.example.com/"
def getAndParseURL(url):
result = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(result.text, 'html.parser')
return(soup)
soup = getAndParseURL(main_url)
ul = soup.select('ul[class="list-inline lot-breakdown-list"] li', recursive=True)
lis_e = []
for li in ul:
lis = []
lis.append(li.contents[1])
lis_e.extend(lis)
engine.append(lis_e[0])
trans.append(lis_e[1])
colour.append(lis_e[2])
interior.append(lis_e[3])
scraped_data = pd.DataFrame({'engine': engine,
'transmission': trans, 'colour': colour,
'interior': interior})
By default, Beautiful Soup searches through all of the child elements. So, setting recursive = False (line 13) will restrict the search to the first found element and its child only.
The code was provided by Ahmed Soliman.
I recently got a question and it looked like this : how to download a file from a link in Python?
“I need to go to every link which will open a website and that would have the download file “Export offers to XML”. This link is javascript enabled.”
Let us consider how to get a file from a JS-driven weblink using Python :
We’ve done the Linkedin scraper that downloades the free study courses. They include text data, exercise files and 720HD videos. The code does not represent the pure Linkedin scraper, a business directory data extractor. Yet, you might grasp the main thoughts and useful techniques for your Linkedin scraper development. 
Recently, I was challenged to do bulk submits through an authenticated form. The website required a login. While there are plenty of examples of how to use POST and GET in Python, I want to share with you how I handled the session along with a cookie and authenticity token (CSRF-like protection).
In the post, we are going to cover the crucial techniques needed in the scripting web scraping:
- persistent session usage
- cookie finding and storing [in session]
- “auth token” finding, retrieving and submitting in a form
I often receive requests asking about email crawling. It is evident that this topic is quite interesting for those who want to scrape contact information from the web (like direct marketers), and previously we have already mentioned GSA Email Spider as an off-the-shelf solution for email crawling. In this article I want to demonstrate how easy it is to build a simple email crawler in Python. This crawler is simple, but you can learn many things from this example (especially if you’re new to scraping in Python).
test.py
import MySQLdb, db_config
class Test:
def connect(self):
self.conn = MySQLdb.connect(host=config.db_credentials["mysql"]["host"],
user=config.db_credentials["mysql"]["user"],
passwd=config.db_credentials["mysql"]["pass"],
db=config.db_credentials["mysql"]["name"])
self.conn.autocommit(True)
return self.conn
def insert_parametrized(self, test_value="L'le-Perrot"):
cur = self.connect().cursor()
cur.execute("INSERT INTO a_table (name, city) VALUES (%s,%s)", ('temp', test_value))
# run it
t=Test().insert_parametrized("test city'; DROP TABLE a_table;")
db_config.py (place it in the same directory as the test.py file)
db_credentials = {
"mysql": {
"name": "db_name",
"host": "db_host", # eg. '127.0.0.1'
"user": "xxxx",
"pass": "xxxxxxxx",
}
}
Question:
The Python requests library is a useful library having tons of advantages compared to other similar libraries. However, as I was trying to retrieve the Wikipedia page, requests.get() retrieved it only partially:
Recently I decided to work with pythonanywhere.com for running python scripts on JS stuffed websites.
Originally I tried to leverage the dryscrape library, but I failed to do it, and a nice support explained to me: “…unfortunately dryscrape depends on WebKit, and WebKit doesn’t work with our virtualisation system.”
In this post we want to show you the code for an automatic connection to 2captcha service for solving google reCaptcha v2.0. Not long ago, google drastically complicated the user-behavior reCaptcha (v2.0). This online service provides a method for solving it.