Java Web Scraping Handbook
Learn advanced web scraping techniques with Java. Extract data from any website. Deal with AJAX heavy websites, break captchas, deploy your scrapers in the cloud.
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Web scraping or crawling is the art of fetching data from a third party website by downloading and parsing the HTML code to extract the data you want. It can be hard. From bad HTML code to heavy Javascript use and anti-bot techniques, it is often tricky. Lots of companies use it to obtain knowledge concerning competitor prices, news aggregation, mass email collect…
This book will teach you how to extract data from any website, how to deal with AJAX / Javascript heavy websites, break captchas, deploy your scrapers in the cloud and many other advanced techniques.
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Author
About the Author
Kevin Sahin
Hi there, I'm Kevin Sahin, the author of the Java Web Scraping Handbook. I have a blog about web scraping where I write about Web scraping and software development. I am also the Co-founder of ScrapingBee the easiest web scraping API.
Previously I spent more than four years building large scale web scrapers in the fintech industry, we're talking about millions of web pages scraped each day. I got my BS in computer science at Paul Sabatier University, in Toulouse, France. I wish I had a book like this when I started my job, to answer all the questions I had. Unfortunately, there wasn't a lot of good resources about web scraping back then. But now there is :)
You can find me on twitter !
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction to Web scraping
- Web Scraping VS APIs
- Web scraping use cases
- What you will learn in this book
Web fundamentals
- HyperText Transfer Protocol
- HTML and the Document Object Model
- Web extraction process
- Xpath
- Regular Expression
Extracting the data you want
- Tools
- Let’s scrape Hacker News
- Go further
Handling forms
- Form Theory
- Case study: Hacker News authentication
- File Upload
- Other forms
Dealing with Javascript
- Javascript 101
- Headless Chrome
- Selenium API
- Infinite scroll
Captcha solving, PDF parsing, and OCR
- Captcha solving
- PDF parsing
- Optical Caracter Recognition
Stay under cover
- Headers
- Proxies
- TOR: The Onion Router
- Tips
Cloud scraping
- Serverless
- Deploying an Azure function
- Conclusion
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