What will we need?
Web scraping is divided into two simple parts —
- Fetching data by making an HTTP request
- Extracting important data by parsing the HTML DOM
We willScrapingDog be using python and Scrapingdog API :
- Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files.
- Requests allow you to send HTTP requests very easily.
Web Scraping using Beautifulsoup and scrapingdog API
In this post we are going to scrape dynamic websites that use JavaScript libraries like React.js, Vue.js, Angular.js, etc you have to put extra efforts. It is an easy but lengthy process if you are going to install all the libraries like Selenium, Puppeteer, and headerless browsers like Phantom.js. But, we have a tool that can handle all this load itself. That is Web Scraping Tool which offers APIs and Tools for web scraping.
Why this tool? This tool will help us to scrape dynamic websites using millions of rotating proxies so that we don’t get blocked. It also provides a captcha clearing facility. It uses headerless chrome to scrape dynamic websites.