How to Select a Drop-Down Menu Value with Python Selenium

One of the finest open-source browser automation tools recognized in today’s world is selenium and the β€œSelect” class of selenium WebDriver enables us to handle the dropdown menu smoothly. Today, we will try to figure out all the intricacies of the β€œSelect” class practically. Purpose of the Select Class The β€œSelect” class in selenium allows … Read more

How to Install Scrapy on PyCharm?

Scrapy is an open-source Python library to extract data from websites, i.e., web scraping. Problem Formulation: Given a PyCharm project. How to install the Scrapy library in your project within a virtual environment or globally? Here’s a solution that always works: Open File > Settings > Project from the PyCharm menu. Select your current project. … Read more

Using Scrapy in PyCharm

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 … Read more

How to Run a Scrapy Spider from a Python Script

Scrapy is a framework for building web crawlers and includes an API that can be used directly from a python script.Β  The framework includes many components and options that manage the details of requesting pages from websites and collecting and storing the desired data. Β  The typical way to run scrapy is to use the … Read more

How to Get an HTML Page from a URL in Python?

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 … Read more