Web Scraping in Python

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Trey Brooks: monroemasseybrooks@gmail.com

Getting setup

1. Install Anaconda with Python 3.6

• Install environment from file

$ conda env create -f environment.yml

TicketMaster Demos

1. In a console navigate to this directory

• Execute $ jupyter notebook

• Launch http://127.0.0.1:8888 in a browser.

• Find and open the notebooks in your browser.

Scrapy Demo

1. Check that crawler will work

$ scrapy check

• Make sure mongod is running

$ mongod

• running the crawler

$ scrapy runspider quotes_spider/spiders/quotes_scraper.py