Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Python Web Scraping

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

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781786462589
Length 220 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Tools
Concepts
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Katharine Jarmul Katharine Jarmul
Author Profile Icon Katharine Jarmul
Katharine Jarmul
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Google search engine

To investigate using our knowledge of CSS selectors, we will scrape Google search results. According to the Alexa data used in Chapter 4, Concurrent Downloading, google.com is the world's most popular website, and conveniently, its structure is simple and straightforward to scrape.


International Google may redirect to a country-specific version, depending on your location. In these examples, Google is set to the Romanian version, so your results may look slightly different.

Here is the Google search homepage loaded with browser tools to inspect the form:

We can see here that the search query is stored in an input with name q, and then the form is submitted to the path /search set by the action attribute. We can test this by doing a test search to submit the form, which would then be redirected to a URL, such as https://www.google.ro/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=TuXYWJXqBsGsswHO8YiQAQ#q=test...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image