Wanna learn to web scrape with Selenium? In this Web Scraping With Selenium Python tutorial, you'll learn how to handle dynamic content with delayed JavaScript rendering. Moreover, it will teach you how to scrape in headless and headful modes.
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The requirements for the code:
webdriver-manager
selenium
bs4
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from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from extension import proxies
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import json
username = 'spkjz8uhm3'
password = 'dwnacUgGr28wQh41yU'
endpoint = 'gate.smartproxy.com'
port = '7000'
# Set up Chrome WebDriver
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
proxies_extension = proxies(username, password, endpoint, port)
chrome_options.add_extension(proxies_extension)
# chrome_options.add_argument("--headless=new")
chrome = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()), options=chrome_options)
# Open the desired webpage
url = "quotes.toscrap..."
chrome.get(url)
# Wait for the "quotes" divs to load
wait = WebDriverWait(chrome, 30)
quote_elements = wait.until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "quote")))
# Extract the HTML of all "quote" elements, parse them with BS4 and save to JSON
quote_data = []
for quote_element in quote_elements:
print(quote_element.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
soup = BeautifulSoup(quote_element.get_attribute("outerHTML"), 'html.parser')
quote_text = soup.find('span', class_='text').text
author = soup.find('small', class_='author').text
tags = [tag.text for tag in soup.find_all('a', class_='tag')]
quote_info = {
"Quote": quote_text,
"Author": author,
"Tags": tags
}
quote_data.append(quote_info)
with open('quote_info.json', 'w') as json_file:
json.dump(quote_data, json_file, indent=4)
# Close the WebDriver
chrome.quit()
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❓ Why use Python for web scraping?
Python is considered one of the most efficient programming languages for web scraping. It is general-purpose and has a variety of web scraping frameworks and libraries, such as Selenium, Beautiful Soup, and Scrapy. What's more, web scraping with Python is easy to learn, even for beginners, thanks to its shallow learning curve.
29 сен 2024
