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Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

By : Smith
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Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

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By: Smith

Overview of this book

Web scraping is the process of extracting information from the web using various tools that perform scraping and crawling. Go is emerging as the language of choice for scraping using a variety of libraries. This book will quickly explain to you, how to scrape data data from various websites using Go libraries such as Colly and Goquery. The book starts with an introduction to the use cases of building a web scraper and the main features of the Go programming language, along with setting up a Go environment. It then moves on to HTTP requests and responses and talks about how Go handles them. You will also learn about a number of basic web scraping etiquettes. You will be taught how to navigate through a website, using a breadth-first and then a depth-first search, as well as find and follow links. You will get to know about the ways to track history in order to avoid loops and to protect your web scraper using proxies. Finally the book will cover the Go concurrency model, and how to run scrapers in parallel, along with large-scale distributed web scraping.
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Boundaries

When you are crawling a website, you may not always know where you will end up. Many links in web pages take you to external sites that you may not trust as much as your target sites. These linked pages could contain irrelevant information or could be used for malicious purposes. It is important to define boundaries for your web scraper to safely navigate through unknown sources.

Whitelists

Whitelisting domains is a process by means of which you explicitly allow your scraper to access certain websites. Any site listed on the whitelist is OK for the web scraper to access, whereas any site that is not listed is automatically skipped. This is a simple way to ensure that your scraper only accesses pages for a small...

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