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2 points by pynerds 3579 days ago
I want to learn Python for web scraping and some basic website. I am 28 years old. I don't know any programming language. What resources would you suggest?
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dec0dedab0de 3577 days ago
It's a bit dated at this point, but I still recommend the google python class as a starting point. https://developers.google.com/edu/python/
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hgarg 3579 days ago
Start with this - learnpythonthehardway.org You can read and follow along the book online for free.
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thalesfc 3579 days ago
Use selenium.py, it is by far the easiest and scalable solution out there. (believe me I have tried everything, beautiful soup, request.py, scrapy.py ... )
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pynerds 3579 days ago
Any tutorial to learn selenium.py
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thalesfc 3578 days ago
tutorials

http://thiagomarzagao.com/2013/11/17/webscraping-with-seleni...

videoblog

https://github.com/kjam/python-web-scraping-tutorial/blob/ma...

The first link is a straight following link, and the second one is a 30mimn video that goes through all available Python crawlers.

My recommendation: follow the first one if you are sure to use selenium or watch the second link to check all possibilities.

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