Learning Scrapy: learn the art of efficient web scraping and crawling with Python

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Learn the art of efficient web scraping and crawling with PythonAbout This BookExtract data from any source to perform real time analytics.Full of techniques and examples to help you crawl websites and extract data within hours.A hands-on guide to web scraping and crawling with real-life problems and solutionsWho This Book Is ForIf you are a software developer, data scientist, NLP or machine-learning enthusiast or just need to migrate your company's wiki from a legacy platform, then this book is for you. It is perfect for someone , who needs instant access to large amounts of semi-structured data effortlessly.What You Will LearnUnderstand HTML pages and write XPath to extract the data you needWrite Scrapy spiders with simple Python and do web crawlsPush your data into any database, search engine or analytics systemConfigure your spider to download files, images and use proxiesCreate efficient...