Analyzing E-commerce Product Reviews with a Big Data Pipeline

Implementing a Data Pipeline for Product Review Analysis This project outlines a data pipeline for analyzing customer reviews from an e-commerce platform. The process involves collecting data via web scraping, processing it using distributed computing frameworks, and visualizing the results. The goal is to extract insights regarding user behavi ...

Posted on Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:34:32 +0000 by kashmirekat

Advanced Scrapy Techniques: Pagination, Data Pipelines, and Crawling Strategies

Handling Pagination and Multi-Level ExtractionTo effectively scrape structured data across multiple pages, developers must implement logic to identify and follow pagination links. A common use case involves extracting recruitment data where job details are located on separate pages from the listing.Suppose we are targeting a recruitment portal. ...

Posted on Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:27:16 +0000 by torvald_helmer

Advanced Web Scraping with Python Requests: Session Management, Proxies, and Thread Pools

Session-Based Cookie Handling When scraping user-specific data, traditional requests.get() calls often fail to retrieve the target information. Consider a scenario where you need to access a user's profile page on a social networking site. Without proper cookie management, you'll receive the login page instead of the authenticated profile data. ...

Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:27:49 +0000 by Genesis730

Building a Simple Web Scraper with Node.js for Offline Documentation

To create an offline archive of web-based documentation, we can leverage Node.js core modules. This approach relies on the native http module for network requests, the fs module for saving files, and ES6 Promises to manage asynchronous operations. 1. Extracting URLs via the Browser The first step involves identifying the specific pages to downl ...

Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:09:46 +0000 by RussellReal

Web Scraping Weather Forecasts, Stock Data, and University Rankings into SQLite Databases

Task 1: Scraping and Storing Multi-City Weather Foreacsts This task involves scraping 7-day weather forecasts for a predefined set of cities from China Weather (http://www.weather.com.cn) and persisting the data into a local SQLite database. Implementation Code: import sqlite3 import urllib.request from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, UnicodeDammit ...

Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:02:39 +0000 by billspeg

Python Requests Library for HTTP Operations

Installation Install the library via pip: pip install requests For unstable networks, specify a mirror source: pip install requests -i https://pypi.mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/simple/ Available mirrors include: Tsinghua University: https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple Alibaba Cloud: http://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/simple/ University of Science an ...

Posted on Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:28:07 +0000 by bobbfwed

Introduction to Scrapy Framework and Basic Usage

Overview This article covers an introduction to the Scrapy framework, installation instructions, and fundamental usage patterns. What is Scrapy? Scrapy is a powerful Python framework designed for extracting structured data from websites. It provides a complete solution for web crawling tasks, integrating features like asynchronous downloading, ...

Posted on Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:18:44 +0000 by faizanno1

Ajax Data Scraping and MySQL Storage Implementation

Practical Ajax Data Scraping and MySQL Integration Target Data Extraction Extract movie details including title, categories, duration, release location/date, description, and rating from Scrape | Movie pages, then store in MySQL database. Ajax Request Analysis By inspecting network requests from the target website, we identify the structured da ...

Posted on Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:01:01 +0000 by citricsquid

Scrapy Framework Setup and XPath Querying Techniques

Core Framwork Architecture Scrapy operates as an asynchronous web scraping framework built upon Twisted. The main components coordinating data flow are: Engine: Orchestrates triggers and overall data handling. Scheduler: Accepts requests, maintains a priority queue, and deduplicates URLs. Downloader: Retrieves page content via non-blocking I/O ...

Posted on Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:21:19 +0000 by Buffas

Fetching Web Pages with Python's urllib Library for GET Requests

urllib Module Overview The urllib module is a built-in Python library designed for HTTP requests. In Python 3, the primary submodules are urllib.request for handling requests and urllib.parse for URL encoding. This module enables programmatic browser simulation for data extraction tasks. Practical Examples Example 1: Retrieving Baidu Homepage C ...

Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:53:18 +0000 by kosmidd