Website crawl or scraping with selenium and python
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. Scrapi...