This blog is only for practicing learning. The contents may change but CSS selectors would contibue to work.
— Upendra.
This is the first post on this blog. All the posts on this blog are dummy. My real blog is hosted at CodeRecode.com/posts . This one is only for trying out scraping.
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This is part 2 of the dummy post. This post is just a copy of BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Scrapy published earlier.
Selenium was created as a UI Testing Tool. This still used by Testers in software companies. Let’s see a typical scenario.
Let’s assume a Tester is working for the IT department of the Malaysian Government. This tester is testing the Registration Page. So this is how Selenium is used:
This example post is a copy of Introduce Yourself, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
This blog is nothing but a copy of Scrapy and JSON. All the content is a dummy and for practice only.
How easy is it to get JSON data with Scrapy?
The answer—very easy, even if you have basic knowledge of Scrapy.
The most common question that I get asked is which is the best tool for getting data from web pages
It is difficult to have a one size fits all answer to this as the use case is very different. I wrote on this earlier explaining these differences.
How easy is it to get JSON data with Scrapy? This is one more dummy post for practice.
The answer—very easy, even if you have basic knowledge of Scrapy.
The most common question that I get asked is which is the best tool for getting data from web pages
It is difficult to have a one size fits all answer to this as the use case is very different. I wrote on this earlier explaining these differences.
Securely send mail from code: Sending mail with Python is very easy. just a few lines of code. But what that password that you are writing in your source code?
I cover this in my free course on Monitoring Online Store Prices. You can sign-up and see how to send mail along with topics like web scrapping and CSV. Here is the simple code:
with smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587) as smtp:
smtp.starttls()
smtp.login(USER, PASS)
smtp.sendmail(from_address, to_address, message_text)
Scrape It!