Web Scraping with Python

Book Description:

Learn web scraping and crawling techniques to access unlimited data from any web source in any format. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how to use Python scripts and web APIs to gather and process data from thousands—or even millions—of web pages at once.

Ideal for programmers, security professionals, and web administrators familiar with Python, this book not only teaches basic web scraping mechanics, but also delves into more advanced topics, such as analyzing raw data or using scrapers for frontend website testing. Code samples are available to help you understand the concepts in practice.

Learn how to parse complicated HTML pages
Traverse multiple pages and sites
Get a general overview of APIs and how they work
Learn several methods for storing the data you scrape
Download, read, and extract data from documents
Use tools and techniques to clean badly formatted data
Read and write natural languages
Crawl through forms and logins
Understand how to scrape JavaScript
Learn image processing and text recognition

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ADMINISTRATION, PACKT, Python, Python Web Servers, Web Servers,

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Learning WebRTC

Book Description:

The book begins by teaching you how to capture audio and video streams from the browser using the Media Capture and Streams API.

You will then create your first WebRTC application capable of audio and video calling. The book will also give you in-depth knowledge about signaling and building a signaling server in Node.js. While being introduced to the RTCDataChannel object, you will learn how it relates to WebRTC and how to add text-based chat to your application. You will also learn to take your application further by supporting multiple users through different technologies and scale its performance and security. This book will also cover several theories using full mesh networks, partial mesh networks, and multipoint control units. By the end of this book, you will have an extensive understanding of real-time communication and the WebRTC protocol and APIs.

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ADMINISTRATION, Web Servers, WebRTC,

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Formal Methods for Web Services

Book Description:

This book presents papers from the lectures of leading researchers given at the Ninth International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2009, which was devoted to formal methods for web services.

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ADMINISTRATION, Web Servers, Web Services,

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