This article is based on a freelance job posted on Upwork to scrape data for all the gyms in the USA from MindBodyOnline.com or another similar site. I treated this as a learning project, and it was a good one, as I learned a lot! 🕷️ Web scraping, a technique used to extract data from … Read more
Summary: Use urllib.parse.urljoin() to scrape the base URL and the relative path and join them to extract the complete/absolute URL. You can also concatenate the base URL and the absolute path to derive the absolute path; but make sure to take care of erroneous situations like extra forward-slash in this case. Quick Answer When web … Read more
If you’re short on time, here’s the code for copy and paste: 👇 Let’s dive into the whole article, keep reading to learn and improve your skills (and enjoy the beautiful spider 🕷️🕸️ images I hand-picked for you)! 👇 💡 Quick overview: I’ll show you the three most Pythonic ways to download a PDF from … Read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, known as EDGAR, serves as a rich source of information. This comprehensive database houses financial reports and statements that companies are legally required to disclose, such as a quarterly report filed by institutional investment managers. However, when attempting to extract data from … Read more
Setting up the Environment Before diving into web scraping with Python, set up your environment by installing the necessary libraries. First, install the following libraries: requests, BeautifulSoup, and pandas. These packages play a crucial role in web scraping, each serving different purposes.✨ To install these libraries, click on the previously provided links for a full … Read more
To access the first, second, or N-th child div element in BeautifulSoup, use the .contents or .find_all() methods on a parent div element. The .contents method returns a list of children, including tags and strings, while .find_all() returns a list of matching tags only. Simply select the desired index to obtain the child div element … Read more
Project Motivation My wife and I are pretty discerning about which movies we allow our two daughters (ages 4 and 5) to watch. Recently, we were in conversation with their teachers at school about assembling a good list of age-appropriate movies. To simplify the process, I decided to build a database of movie ratings that … Read more
What is KML? ℹ️ Definition: The Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is a file format for displaying geographic data in Google Earth or other so-called “Earth Browsers”. Similarly to XML, KML uses a tag-based structure with nested elements and attributes. How to Convert KML to CSV in Python? You can convert a .kml to a .csv … Read more
Though Python’s BeautifulSoup module was designed to scrape HTML files, it can also be used to parse XML files. In today’s professional marketplace, it is useful to be able to change an XML file into other formats, specifically dictionaries, CSV, JSON, and dataframes according to specific needs. In this article, we will discuss that process. … Read more
Story: This series of articles assume you work in the IT Department of Mason Books. The Owner asks you to scrape the website of a competitor. He would like this information to gain insight into his pricing structure. 💡 Note: Before continuing, we recommend you possess, at minimum, a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS and … Read more
👩⚖️ Disclaimer: I’m a coder, not a legal advisor or professional. In this article, I merely present my own judgment and research on the topic. But this is not legal advice! Legal Opinion 1: Web Scraping is Legal [Apify] “Web scraping is legal if you scrape data publicly available on the internet. But you should … Read more
Story: This series of articles assume you work in the IT Department of Mason Books. The Owner asks you to scrape the website of a competitor. He would like this information to gain insight into his pricing structure. 💡 Note: Before continuing, we recommend you possess, at minimum, a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS and … Read more