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October 17, 2020 / Last updated : October 17, 2020 admin Python Code

How To Web Scrape Amazon (successfully)

You may want to scrape Amazon for information about books about web scraping! We shorten what would have been a very very long selector, by using “contains” in our xpath : response.xpath(‘//*[contains(@class,”sg-col-20-of-24 s-result-item s-asin”)]’) The most important thing when starting to scrape is to establish what you want in your final output. Here are the […]

October 5, 2020 / Last updated : October 5, 2020 admin Python Code

Xpath for hidden values

This article describes how to form a Scrapy xpath selector to pick out the hidden value that you may need to POST along with a username and password when scraping a site with a log in. These hidden values are dynamically created so you must send them with your form data in your POST request. […]