/Mining-Web-Data-Examples

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Mining Web Data

This repository holds examples on mining web data implemented by me.

Currently, cases are:

  1. Requesting a .csv using python requests and scheduling it periodically using cron services
  2. Consuming league of legends API (Expiring token example)

I'm currently working on providing examples for:

  1. Scraping a static page with beautifulSoup
  2. Orchestrating a whole website scraping with scrapy
  3. Consuming hidden APIs by investigating network traffic
  4. Using a proxy to bypass ip restrictions
  5. Scraping dynamic webpages with Selenium

How to run Scripts

Each folder has a README.md file with instructions for mining a specific case.

For simplyfing things, an unique file containing all projects libraries is available at requirements.txt.

Before running a script, create a virtual environment, enter it and install requirements:

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

This is only necessary once.

Then, enter the individual folder and read further instructions on README.md. For example, project 0 can be run with:

cd 0_schedule_database_download/
python script.py

However it also uses crontab to schedule the script periodically. Read its README to further instructions on how to set it.