I want to extract shortened URLs from tweets if any. These URLs follow a standard form:http://t.co (details here) For this, I used the following regex expression which works fine when I tested it with tweet text by just storing the…
I'm working on a python web scraper to try to grab information for a project I'm doing. I'm using it on twitter atm as I found the twitter api wouldn't grab information any older than a week. The code I'm…
I'm scraping a large set of items using node.js/request and mapping the fields to ElasticSearch documents. The original documents have an ID field which never changes: { id: 123456 } Periodically, I'd like to "refresh" and see which original items…
My previous Question (logging in to website using requests) generated some awesome answers and with that I was able to scrape a lot of sites. But the site I'm working on now is tricky. I don't know if it's a…
Currently trying to check the stock of a size small on this PAGE (which is 0) but specifically retrieve the inventory of a size small from this data: <script> (function($) { var variantImages = {}, thumbnails, variant, variantImage; variant =…
I am trying to crawl visible texts from a given URL. It should work for any random url, so I cannot pre-assume html tags, elements, layouts, etc. Knowing perfect crawling seems difficult, I just hope to include most of natural…
I would like to retrieve the embedded Facebook comments from the page web: (http://www.example.com/sub_page_wFBcomments) What I know I can use the Facebook graph API for retrieving facebook comments directly from facebook.com. The same is not true when the comments are…
I'm trying to access a protected page on twitter (for example my own like list) via urllib2 in Python, but this code always sends me back to the login page. Any idea why that is? (I know I can use…
This is a follow up to my post Using Python to Scrape Nested Divs and Spans in Twitter?. I'm not using the Twitter API because it doesn't look at the tweets by hashtag this far back. Complete code and output…
I have an affiliate account with Amazon and have been collecting information from the Amazon site for the purpose of sending them buyers. Today, I tested my site and found that all of the requests to Amazon failed. Here is…