While communicating with our web scraping API users, we've found that many of them use a whole web page text extraction for further data manipulation.
It's interesting, as such an approach simplifies the needed data extraction by just picking the particular text row from the text or using RegExp.
Working with images in NodeJS extends your web scraping capabilities, from downloading the image with an URL to retrieving photo attributes like EXIF. How to achieve the image download and obtain the data?
HTML parsing is a vital part of web scraping, as it allows convert web page content to meaningful and structured data. Still, as HTML is a tree-structured format, it requires a proper tool for parsing, as it can't be property traversed using Regex.
This article will reveal the most popular .NET libraries for HTML parsing with their strong and weak parts.
This article will expose how to block specific resources (HTTP requests, CSS, video, images) from loading in Playwright. Playwright is Puppeteer's successor with the ability to control Chromium, Firefox, and Webkit. So I'd call it the second one of the most widely used web scraping and automation tools with headless browser support.
Java is one of the most popular and high demanded programming languages nowadays. It allows creating highly-scalable and reliable services as well as multi-threaded data extraction solutions. Let's check out the main concepts of web scraping with Java and review the most popular libraries to setup your data extraction flow.
In this article, we'll take a look at how to submit forms using Playwright. This knowledge might be beneficial while scraping the web, as it allows to get the information from the target web page, which requires providing parameters before.
In this article, we will share several ideas on how to download files with Playwright. Automating file downloads can sometimes be confusing. You need to handle a download location, download multiple files simultaneously, support streaming, and even more. Unfortunately, not all the cases are well documented. Let's go through several examples and take a deep dive into Playwright's APIs used for file download.
We all want our business to succeed. If you are in the hospitality business, you want to hit your targets and surpass them. You want to beat your competitors through anything that will keep you on top or still running. You can achieve this in so many different ways. Lately, and the most modern method of placing your hospitality business upfront is through web scraping.
Consumers nowadays are constantly looking for discounts, special offers, and compare prices in different online businesses. Therefore, you, too, as a business owner, should be alert and check how prices fluctuate among your competitors. It would be best if you were up to date on pricing so that, you too, can offer your customers better deals. Consequently, you will retain your customers and even reach more.
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