How to disable images and CSS in Puppeteer to speed up web scraping
Learn how to disable images and CSS of an entire web page using Google Chrome Headless or Chromium using Puppeteer and Node JS, for debugging tests or for web scraping
How To Make Anonymous Requests using TorRequests and Python
Tor is quite useful when you have to use requests without revealing your IP address, especially when you are web scraping. This tutorial will use a wrapper in python that helps you with the same.
How to take screenshots using Puppeteer
Learn how to take screenshots of entire web page, a specific area or different view ports in Google Chrome, Chrome Headless or Chromium using Puppeteer and Node JS, for debugging tests or for web scraping
Web Scraping with Puppeteer and NodeJS
Puppeteer is a node.js library which provides a powerful but simple API that allows you to control Google’s Chrome browser. In this tutorial post, we will show you how to build a web scraper and control chrome using puppeteer and node.js to the scrape details of hotel listings from booking.com
How to Solve Simple Captchas using Python Tesseract
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. As the acronym suggests, it is a test used to determine whether the user is human or not. A typical captcha consists of a distorted test, which a computer program cannot interpret but a human can (hopefully) still read. This tutorial will […]
How to Parse Addresses using Python and Google GeoCoding API
Web scraping can often lead to you having scraped address data which are unstructured. If you have come across a large number of freeform address as a single string, for example – “9 Downing St Westminster London SW1A, UK”, you know how hard it would be to validate, compare and deduplicate these addresses. To start […]