Chapter 1, Getting Started with Scraping, introduces several concepts and tools for web scraping. We will examine how to install and do basic tasks with tools such as requests, urllib, BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, PhantomJS and Selenium.
Chapter 2, Data Acquisition and Extraction, is based on an understanding of the structure of HTML and how to find and extract embedded data. We will cover many of the concepts in the DOM and how to find and extract data using BeautifulSoup, XPath, LXML, and CSS selectors. We also briefly examine working with Unicode / UTF8.
Chapter 3, Processing Data, teaches you to load and manipulate data in many formats, and then how to store that data in various data stores (S3, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ...
