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Engineer Poetry: Valentine's Day Edition
New release: Help Scout for Android is Live, customer service on the go
Challenges to Rebranding and How to Create a Successful Style Guide
How to Scrape Websites Based on Viewstates Using Scrapy
Cyber Monday: How to Build Your Own Price Monitoring Tool
XPath Tips from the Web Scraping Trenches
An Introduction to XPath: How to Get Started
How to Crawl the Web Politely with Scrapy
How the US Department of Commerce Promotes Open Data
What You Need to Know About IBM Design Thinking
Interview: How Up Hail Uses Scrapy to Increase Transparency
Tutorial for Using Open Source to Scrape the Web with Scrapy
Embracing the Future of Work: How to Communicate Remotely
Most Millennials Want to Be Like Zuckerberg: Work Flexible Hours, Call the Shots
Deploy Your Web Crawlers in Custom Docker Images to Scrapy Cloud
Improved Frontera: Web Crawling at Scale with Python 3 Support
Cloud-Based Web Scraping Using Python 3
What the Suicide Squad Tells Us About Web Data
Meet Parsel: The Python Library for Extracting Data from XML/HTML Text
Web Scraping to Improve Peruvian Government Transparency
Re:Scrapely: The brains behind Portia, our visual web scraping tool
on Thursday July 07, 2016 @12:54PM (#12050537)
We've actually developed a way that you can convert Portia projects into Scrapy spiders: https://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/06/29/introducing-portia2c...
and since this is all open source, here's a link to GitHub: https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia2code
Re:The land grab for farm data
on Thursday July 07, 2016 @11:28AM (#12049924)
There is actually a thriving industry in data collection and these range from companies that provide tools for you to do your own data collection and those who will collect the data for you (or provide pre-made datasets). Full disclosure, I work for one such: Scrapinghub where we provide tools, platform, and data services.
Re:Scrapely: The brains behind Portia, our visual web scraping tool
on Thursday July 07, 2016 @10:00AM (#12049342)
We did indeed model our Portia on the real spiders. We'd like to think our version is a wee bit cuter...