On May 30, 2014 10:12 PM, Matthew Ngaha chigga...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the response Alan. I forgot to reply to tutor on my 2nd
comment. Just incase someone might want to see it, here it is:
Okay I think learning how to scrap (library or framework) is not
worth the trouble. Especially
Hey all. I've been meaning to get into web scraping and was pointed to
the directions of lxml (library) and scrapy (framework). Can I ask in
terms of web scraping, what's the difference between a library and a
framework? Surely everyone should use a framework but I get the idea
more people use the
On 30/05/14 18:25, Matthew Ngaha wrote:
Hey all. I've been meaning to get into web scraping and was pointed to
the directions of lxml (library) and scrapy (framework). Can I ask in
terms of web scraping, what's the difference between a library and a
framework?
I don;t know of anything web
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote:
If a site offers an API that returns the data you need then use it,
If not you have few alternatives to scraping (although scraping
may be 'illegal' anyway due to the impact on other users). But scraping,
whether a
Thanks for the response Alan. I forgot to reply to tutor on my 2nd
comment. Just incase someone might want to see it, here it is:
Okay I think learning how to scrap (library or framework) is not
worth the trouble. Especially if some people consider it illegal.
Thanks for the input.
