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Website crawl or scraping with selenium and python

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The amount of information on the Web grows exponentially, a flurry of applications (mobile, web, or otherwise) have come about that wish to harness it all. The methods for harnessing information on the web may be many, but one that’s seemingly the most ubiquitous is ‘scraping’. Scraping is what most search engines employ in some form or the other: the ‘spiders’ that crawl the web looking for metadata information embedded in websites, or price-comparison sites that allow users to make purchase decisions, and probably a gazillion other things that I cannot even imagine. How Scraping differs ? In this article we are going to look at the website crawling with python. The crawling work can be classified based on the HTML DOM modification and rendering.  Scraping Type 1: The DOM modification is done in server side and the html string append in frond end means we dont go with selenium. We can achieve through python and tool for parsing html code.  Scraping Type 2

Twitter Sentiment Analyser with Stanford NLP

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This topic covers the sentiment analysis of any tweets collected from twitter and store the result in database What is sentiment analysis ?   Which means the analysis done through computational to determine the given statement is positive or negative . Where it will useful  ?  Marketing  - which find out the people feed back based product success of failure prediction Politics  People actions  Here we are going to do the sentiment analysis with twitter Pre required : 1. Java 1.8 - required for stanford nlp server to run 2. Tweepy - required to pull / crawl  data from the twitter  3. Pycorennlp - required to call stanford nlp server via python Please follow this url  https://stanfordnlp.github.io/CoreNLP/corenlp-server.html to install nlp server in your local system. We can also use third party library to find the sentiment analysis. The textblob is one of the library in python. Authentication : In order to fetch tweets through Twitter API, on