Introduction to Web Scraping
Jay M. Patel · Apress eBooks · 2020
In this chapter, you will learn about the common use cases for web scraping. The overall goal of this book is to take raw web crawls and transform them into structured data which can be used for providing actionable insights. We will demonstrate applications of such a structured data from a rest API endpoint by performing sentiment analysis on Reddit comments. Lastly, we will talk about the different steps of the web scraping pipeline and how we are going to explore them in this book.