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Sometime some of the data needs to be passed to the another callback function while using the scrapy framework. For that we can use the meta property of the scrapy request and pass our data there. In the callback function the data can be received using the response.meta.get(”) method. The sample entire scrapy code will…

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While scraping multiple website links one at a time it would be time consuming. We can use the multithread features from the futures module of python to implement threading in python using the simplest way possible. The thread pool executor will going to run the number of threads we need to run at a time.

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LinkedIn needs login to access information inside it. If you are into data mining and wanted to scrape linkedin data then selenium could be the best choice but it comes with the trade-off for time. Instead we can use python requests module to login to the linkedin and scrape the data. let’s import the requests…

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Splash is a library which integrate the javascript with the scrapy. Most of the modern website uses ajax request  hence it takes certain time to load the data even after the DOM element finishes loading. In such websites scrapy alone cannot scrape the data. For this additional library called splash should be used. As an…

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Scrapy is one of the popular and powerful framework of python which is used for web scraping and data mining. Unlike different web scraping modules and libraries like requests,beautiful soup it has its own ecosystem. Using scrapy concurrent request can be send to the server/website so one requests does not wait for the previous one…

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