Do you want to analyze and plot the data of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Cardano (ADA) and other cryptocurrencies but you don’t know where to find a reliable data source? I had the same problem a couple of hours ago when writing a Python script to plot the relative price of altcoins versus BTC. This …
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We live in a world that relies on data, massive amounts of data. This data is used in many areas of business, for example: Marketing & sales Competition research Lead generation Content aggregation Monitoring consumer sentiment Data Analytics and Data science AI Machine learning Real Estate Product and price data Much of this data is …
Problem Formulation Say, you have a given URL stored as a string in your Python script. You know that if you’d call get url, the server returns a JSON object. How to get the JSON object from a given URL in Python? Solution with urllib and json Modules You can get the JSON object from …
Hey Finxters! In my last article, I showed you how to host your Streamlit/Python web app in the cloud on Heroku. Now, perhaps you thought to yourself, that’s very nice but I need my script (not necessarily a web app, by the way) to run twice a week to load this new data at work, …
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Scrapy is a framework for building web crawlers and includes an API that can be used directly from a python script. The framework includes many components and options that manage the details of requesting pages from websites and collecting and storing the desired data. The typical way to run scrapy is to use the …
This tutorial shows you how to perform simple HTTP get requests to get an HTML page from a given URL in Python! Problem Formulation Given a URL as a string. How to extract the HTML from the given URL and store the result in a Python string variable? Example: Say, you want to accomplish the …
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to open a PDF file in an external PDF reader or the browser, using a simple Python command. There are many variants to this problem, so let’s dive right into the different ones—and their solutions! Method 1: Open PDF Standard Viewer with os.system(path) — With CMD You can open …
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. Problem Formulation Problem: How …
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Problem: Given a string; how to split/cut the string and extract the required characters? In this article, we will be discussing some interesting scenarios which allow us to split or cut a string and extract the necessary portion of the string that we need. Let us dive into each example/scenario and have a look at …
Introduction XML is a tool that is used to store and transport data. It stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML is quite similar to HTML and they have almost the same kind of structure but they were designed to accomplish different goals. XML is designed to transport data while HTML is designed to display data. …
Summary: To install BeautifulSoup in WIndows use the command: pip install beautifulsoup4. To install it in Linux use the command: sudo apt-get install python3-bs4. Aim: In this tutorial we will discuss how to to install BeautifulSoup? Since BeautifulSoup is not a Python standard library we need to install it before we can use it to …
Introduction HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) consists of numerous tags and the data we need to extract lies inside those tags. Thus we need to find the right tags to extract what we need. Now, how do we find the right tags? We can do so with the help of BeautifulSoup’s search methods. Beautiful Soup has …