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Python Web Scraping

You're reading from   Python Web Scraping Hands-on data scraping and crawling using PyQT, Selnium, HTML and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786462589
Length 220 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Facebook

To demonstrate using a browser and API, we will investigate Facebook's site. Currently, Facebook is the world's largest social network in terms of monthly active users, and therefore, its user data is extremely valuable.

The website

Here is an example Facebook page for Packt Publishing athttps://www.facebook.com/PacktPub:

Viewing the source of this page, you would find that the first few posts are available, and that later posts are loaded with AJAX when the browser scrolls. Facebook also has a mobile interface, which, as mentioned in Chapter 1, Introduction to Web Scraping, is often easier to scrape. The same page using the mobile interface is available at https://m.facebook.com/PacktPub:

If we interacted with the mobile website and then checked...

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