One of the finest open-source browser automation tools recognized in today’s world is selenium and the “Select” class of selenium WebDriver enables us to handle the dropdown menu smoothly. Today, we will try to figure out all the intricacies of the “Select” class practically. Purpose of the Select Class The “Select” class in selenium allows … Read more
Modern web pages are fitted with so many functionalities. Buttons are one of the fundamental components of them. Selenium Python API bindings allow us to access the Selenium WebDrivers to click a button automatically. In this article, we will follow step by step approach to click on buttons. Setting Up the Environment We need to … Read more
Beautiful Soup is a Python library for web scraping, i.e., extracting data from HTML and XML files. Web scraping is one of the most sought-after skills of freelance developers. To build yourself a new valuable web scraping skill, feel free to check out our full “WebScraping with BeautifulSoup” course on the Finxter Computer Science Academy … Read more
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
To carry on from our introduction to Newspaper3k, we can now take our basic knowledge and realize the possibilities of what we can do with this library. Here I’m going to demonstrate for you a project which takes articles from a set of different news agencies, picks out the most used words from them, and … Read more
Would you like to be able to scrape information from any article without having to write a completely different set of code every time? In this post, I will show you a Python library which allows you to scrape any article using only a few lines of code. It’s called Newspaper3k. ? Video: As you go … Read more
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 … Read more
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
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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