Modern Web Scraping With Python Using Scrapy Splash Selenium

Become an expert in web scraping and web crawling using Python 3, Scrapy and Scrapy Splash

What you’ll learn

• Understand the fundamentals of Web Scraping
• Understand Scrapy Architecture
• Scrape websites using Scrapy
• Understand Xpath
• Extract and locate nodes from the DOM using XPath
• Build a complete Spider from A to Z
• Deploy Spiders to the cloud
• Store the extracted Data in MongoDb
• Understand how Splash Works
• Scrape websites that relies on Javascript to render their content using Scrapy-Splash
• Build a CrawlSpider
• Understand the Crawling behavior
• Build a custom Middleware
• Web Scraping best practices
• Avoid getting banned while scraping websites
• Scrape APIs
• Scrape infinite scroll websites
• Working with Cookies
• Deploy spiders locally
• Deploy spiders to Heroku
• Run spiders periodically
• Prevent storing duplicated data
• Deploy Splash to Heroku
• Write Data to Excel files
• Login to websites using Scrapy
• Download images and files using Scrapy
• Use Crawlera with Scrapy
• Add proxies to the CrawlSpider
• Free proxies with Scrapy

Requirements

• Basics of Python
• Basics of HTML
• Basics of Javascript
• Internet access

Description

Web Scraping nowdays has become one of the hottest topics, there are plenty of paid tools out there in the market that don’t show you anything how things are done as you will be always limited to their functionalities as a consumer.

In this course you won’t be a consumer anymore, i’ll teach you how you can build your own scraping tool ( spider ) using Scrapy.

You will learn:

1. The fundamentals of Web Scraping
2. How to build a complete spider
3. The fundamentals of XPath
4. How to locate content/nodes from the DOM using XPath
5. How to store the data in JSON, CSV… and even to an external database(MongoDb)
6. How to write your own custom Pipeline
7. Fundamentals of Splash
8. How to scrape Javascript websites using Scrapy Splash
9. The Crawling behavior
10. How to build a CrawlSpider
11. How to avoid getting banned while scraping websites
12. How to build a custom Middleware
13. Web Scraping best practices
14. How to scrape APIs
15. How to use Request Cookies
16. How to scrape infinite scroll websites
17. Host spiders in Heroku for free
18. Run spiders periodically with a custom script
19. Prevent storing duplicated data
20. Deploy Splash to Heroku
21. Write data to Excel files
22. Login to websites using FormRequest
23. Download Files & Images using Scrapy
24. Use Proxies with Scrapy Spider
25. Use Crawlera with Scrapy & Splash
26. Use Proxies with CrawlSpider

What makes this course different from the others, and why you should enroll ?

• First, this is the most updated course. You will be using Python 3.6, Scrapy 1.5 and Splash 2.0

• You will have an in-depth step by step guide on how to become a professional web scraper.

• I’ll show you how other courses scrape Javascript websites using Selenium and why shouldn’t do it in their way.
• You will learn how to use Splash to scrape Javascript websites and i can assure you won’t find any tutorials out there that teaches how to really use Splash like i’ll be doing in this course.
• You will learn how to host spiders in Heroku as well as Splash(Exclusive).
• You will learn how to create a custom script so spiders can run periodically without any intervention from you.

So whether you are a data analyst who wants to add web scraping to his tool set or someone else who wants to learn how to extract unstructured data from unstructured HTML web pages and then store back that data in a structured way to apply some data analysis on it then you are welcome to join this course.

Who this course is for:

• Anyone who wants to scrape data from any website
• Anyone who wants to learn Scrapy
• Anyone who wants to automate the task of copying contents from websites
• Anyone who wants to learn how to scrape Javascript websites using Scrapy-Splash
• Anyone who wants to learn the basics of Xpath
• Anyone who want to learn Scrapy Splash

Created by Ahmed Rafik