The following is an article which will show you how to use Scrapy to log in to sites that have username and password authentication. The important thing to remember is that there may be additional data that needs to be sent to the login page, data that is in addition to just username and password… […]
The challenge was to scrape a site where the class names for each element were out of order / randomised. So the only way to get the data in the correct sequence was to sort through the CSS styles by left, top, and match to the class names in the divs… The names were meaningless […]
Why would you want to do that? Well, if you are web scraping using Python, and Scrapy for instance, you may need to extract reviews, or comments that are loaded from JavaScript. This would mean you could not use your css or xpath selectors like you can with regular html. Parse Instead, in your browser, […]