Sooner or later you will need to resort to using regular expressions if you are scraping text. This article will show you some useful Python (version 3) examples which you can use over and over again.. We’ll be using “re.search” and “group” example 1 – parse a paragraph of text for the number of floors, […]

Back up your MySQL database (on a Raspberry Pi) Once in production you will need to ensure you have a copy of your data for many reasons which we can all identify with. So, before getting too far into a web scraping project using Scrapy with MySQL let’s spare a moment to get familiar with […]