This is not a problem in your script, its a feature in you partners web server security. It’s hard to say exactly whats blocking you, most likely its some sort of block against scraping. If your partner has access to his web servers setup it might help pinpoint. What you could do is to “fake … Read more
Unfortunately, BeautifulSoup treats this as a class with a space in it ‘class1 class2’ rather than two classes [‘class1′,’class2’]. A workaround is to use a regular expression to search for the class instead of a string. This works: soup.findAll(True, {‘class’: re.compile(r’\bclass1\b’)})
So, RSelenium is not the only answer (anymore). If you can install the PhantomJS binary (grab phantomjs binaries from here: http://phantomjs.org/) then you can use it to render the HTML and scrape it with rvest (similar to the RSelenium approach but doesn’t require java): library(rvest) # render HTML from the site with phantomjs url <- … Read more
You can use the WebClient Using System.Net; WebClient client = new WebClient(); string downloadString = client.DownloadString(“http://www.gooogle.com”);
Instead of trying to reverse engineer it, you can use ghost.py to directly interact with JavaScript on the page. If you run the following query in a chrome console, you’ll see it returns everything you want. document.getElementsByClassName(‘inline-text-org’); Returns [<div class=”inline-text-org” title=”University of Manchester”>University of Manchester</div>, <div class=”inline-text-org” title=”University of California Irvine”>University of California …</div> etc… … Read more
Use $.ajax to load the other page into a variable, then create a temporary element and use .html() to set the contents to the value returned. Loop through the element’s children of nodeType 1 and keep their first children’s nodeValues. If the external page is not on your web server you will need to proxy … Read more
Found a way to do it and tried to adapt to your situation. I didn’t test the best way of finding the bottom of the page because I had a different context, but check the solution below. The thing here is that you have to wait a little for the page to load and javascript … Read more
Here is some code to download all the images from the supplied URL, and save them in the specified output folder. You can modify it to your own needs. “”” dumpimages.py Downloads all the images on the supplied URL, and saves them to the specified output file (“/test/” by default) Usage: python dumpimages.py http://example.com/ [output] … Read more
I would recomend PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser after you have scraped the HTML from the page. It supports invalid HTML, and provides a very easy way to handle HTML elements.
First of all, scrapy docs are available at https://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/. Speaking about handling ajax while web scraping. Basically, the idea is rather simple: open browser developer tools, network tab go to the target site click submit button and see what XHR request is going to the server simulate this XHR request in your spider Also see: … Read more