26 au 28 février 2014
Montréal, Canada
Web Scraping for Fun and Profit
Scraping information from the web is a really useful technique. This talk will show you how to write robust webscraping services using Python, lxml and the Requests library.
I'll cover how to disassemble a webpage to identify the data you want. Automatically testing scrapers to ensure continued reliability. Handling difficult cases.
My examples will be a price monitoring service and EventCity, an online events guide.
I'll cover how to disassemble a webpage to identify the data you want. Automatically testing scrapers to ensure continued reliability. Handling difficult cases.
My examples will be a price monitoring service and EventCity, an online events guide.
Ben Lamb
Ben is a hands-on software engineering leader with 20+ years’ experience spanning .NET, Python, TypeScript, DevOps, AWS and AI. He leads a small team building software and cloud infrastructure for automated electricity trading and dispatch. Ben is fascinated by making small teams more capable through automation and AI, while keeping systems secure, reliable and pragmatic. He enjoys experimenting with new technology, breaking things, automating them and sharing what he learns.
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