4. When should you scrape?
No API available
(anti) https://blog.hartleybrody.com/web-scraping/
No legal / Robot.txt restrictions
http://blog.icreon.us/advise/web-scraping-legality
https://benbernardblog.com/web-scraping-and-
crawling-are-perfectly-legal-
right/
7. Where to go from here?
● Go Python 3 for better Unicode handling
● Invest in learning XPATH
● Javascript processing
(Splash, PhantomJS, Selenium)
● Try scrapy for larger projects
(like django for scraping)
● Stay Legal
(Copyright, Respect robots file)
8. Need to get in touch?
● http://www.linkedin.com/in/gerald-quisumbing
● Python Philippines FB Group
https://www.slideshare.net/gquisumbing/beginners-guide-to-
scraping
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