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Little Data Soup with Spinach (Web Scraping)

on YouTube 35m
TalkinSpanishat PyCon Latam 2019 · 2019-08-29..08-31· [web-platform, python]

speaker

name:Valery Calderon
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/3Ixp92IB3r4
slides:none on file

summary

Covers fundamentals of web scraping and then focuses on concrete best practices for writing scraping scripts using Python (implied by PyCon), emphasizing script efficiency and minimizing impact on the data source. Discusses practical techniques to make scrapers respectful and performant when extracting web data.

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chapters (7)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 2:13What is web scraping?
  3. 7:13Manual inspection and HTML basics
  4. 10:49Python tools and boilerplate
  5. 16:13BeautifulSoup demo
  6. 19:46Best practices and ethics
  7. 22:26Q&A

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