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web-scraping

Selenium-Debugging: Element is not clickable at point (X,Y)

August 13, 2022 by Magenaut

I try to scrape this site by Selenium.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags python, selenium, selenium-firefoxdriver, selenium-webdriver, web-scraping Leave a comment

Python selenium multiprocessing

August 13, 2022 by Magenaut

I’ve written a script in python in combination with selenium to scrape the links of different posts from its landing page and finally get the title of each post by tracking the url leading to its inner page. Although the content I parsed here are static ones, I used selenium to see how it works in multiprocessing.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags multiprocessing, python, python-3.x, selenium, web-scraping Leave a comment

Click a Button in Scrapy

August 12, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m using Scrapy to crawl a webpage. Some of the information I need only pops up when you click on a certain button (of course also appears in the HTML code after clicking).

Categories Python, Q&A Tags python, scrapy, web-crawler, web-scraping Leave a comment

Scraping dynamic content in a website

August 12, 2022 by Magenaut

I need to scrape news announcements from this website, Link.
The announcements seem to be generated dynamically. They dont appear in the source. I usually use mechanize but I assume it wouldnt work. What can I do for this? I’m ok with python or perl.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags perl, python, web-scraping Leave a comment

pandas read_html ValueError: No tables found

August 12, 2022 by Magenaut

I am trying to scrap the historical weather data from the “https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMAHADLE7#history/tdata/s20170201/e20170201/mcustom.html” weather underground page. I have the following code:

Categories Python, Q&A Tags html, pandas, parsing, python, web-scraping Leave a comment

How to get text from span tag in BeautifulSoup

August 12, 2022 by Magenaut

I have links looks like this

Categories Python, Q&A Tags beautifulsoup, python, python-3.4, web-scraping Leave a comment

How to scrape a public tableau dashboard?

August 12, 2022 by Magenaut

Every day I need to downlaod the data available on a public Tableau dashboard. After defining the parameters of interest (time series frequency, time series interval, etc) the dashboard allows you to download the series. My life would be reasonably easier if I could automate the download of these series to a database using Python … Read more

Categories Python, Q&A Tags python, tableau-api, web-scraping Leave a comment

How to use Beautiful Soup to extract string in tag?

August 12, 2022 by Magenaut

In a given .html page, I have a script tag like so:

Categories Python, Q&A Tags beautifulsoup, python, web-scraping Leave a comment

Scrape multiple pages with BeautifulSoup and Python

August 12, 2022 by Magenaut

My code successfully scrapes the tr align=center tags from [ http://my.gwu.edu/mod/pws/courses.cfm?campId=1&termId=201501&subjId=ACCY ] and writes the td elements to a text file.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags html, page-numbering, python, web-scraping Leave a comment

unable to call firefox from selenium in python on AWS machine

August 12, 2022 by Magenaut

I am trying to use selenium from python to scrape some dynamics pages with javascript. However, I cannot call firefox after I followed the instruction of selenium on the pypi page(http://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium). I installed firefox on AWS ubuntu 12.04. The error message I got is:

Categories Python, Q&A Tags amazon-web-services, python, screen-scraping, selenium, web-scraping Leave a comment
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