David Eads | Sustainable scrapers
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Channel: PyData · 2016 · Science & Technology
PyData DC 2016 Scraping data from the web is an essential skill, whether you want to or not. Learn the code and systems tricks that go into testable, fast, low-maintenance scraping gleaned from years of real world practice. A recent NPR project that collects structured data about gun sale listings from Armslist.com demonstrates several of the speaker's favorite tricks for writing simple, fast scrapers with Python. 00:00 Welcome! 00:10 Help us add time stamps or captions to this video! See the description for details. Want to help add timestamps to our YouTube videos to help with discoverability? Find out more here: https://github.com/numfocus/YouTubeVideoTimestamps
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