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Review: Powerful Python
It is not false advertising: This book will make you powerful in Python. And like it even more.
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Review: Python Tricks
Learning how to program in Python is easy, but what about learning how to program good, well-written, Pythonic code? Thanks to Python Tricks, it is easy.
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Let’s Learn About… Python!
Always wanted to learn Python? You tried to start but you always say “Tomorrow I’ll start” but then tomorrow never comes? Tired of tutorials with hundreds of minutes of theory and no real coding? Do you want to switch careers…
Continue ReadingScrapy: How to use the shell
After learning how to get the details of an item in the last post, we are done with the basics and now It’s time you learn how to do it on your own, with a website of your choosing. Today…
Continue ReadingScrapy: Getting all the details
At the last post we used the pagination of the website, visiting all the pages it had to offer. But most of the times all the information isn’t displayed; for that you have to visit the details section of each…
Continue ReadingScrapy: Visiting ‘next’ pages
Last time we created our spider and scraped everything from the first page. But what when a website has more than one page? Let’s learn how we can send the bot to the next page until reaches the end. Our…
Continue ReadingScrapy: Setting up our first spider
We are going to set up and launch our very first spider (a bot) that will crawl quotes.toscrape and grab quotes from famous people right now, so grab yourself your favourite drink (hot or cold) and let’s have fun with…
Continue ReadingScrapy – An Introduction
Let’s learn about Scrapy. But before that… What it is Scrapy? What it does? Why I even want to learn about it? What it is Scrapy? What it can do? Scrapy is a Python-based framework that crawls sites and extracts…
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