Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in web pages

Scraping Reddit Posts with R

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Jan 9, 2024

Scrape data from Reddit posts using R code, handling responses, extracting information, and iterating through multiple posts.

urllib get

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 8, 2024

The urllib module in Python provides a simple interface for fetching data over HTTP. With just a few lines of code, you can easily make GET and POST requests to access web pages and APIs.

What is Urllib Python?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 20, 2024

Urllib is a Python library for making HTTP requests and working with URLs. It is useful for basic requests and simple GET requests. For more advanced functionality, consider using the requests module and other 3rd party packages.

urllib read

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 8, 2024

The urllib module in Python provides functionality for retrieving data from URLs. It allows you to fetch web pages, decode and parse HTML, and handle errors. Practical examples include web scraping and checking broken links.

Web Crawling vs Web Scraping: What's the Difference?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Jan 9, 2024

Web crawling and web scraping are automated processes for discovering new web pages and extracting specific data for analysis.

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