What do you do when you are working with an amazing web application that, for whatever reason, doesn't have an API? One option is to say I wish that site had an API and give up. Or, you could use scrapy, an open source web scraping framework from Pablo Hoffman and <a href='scrapinghub.com'>scrapinghub.com</a> and create your own API!
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On episode 50 of Talk Python To Me, we'll talk about how to do this, when it makes sense, and even when it's allowed.
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Links from the show:
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<b>Scrapy Project</b>: <a href='http://scrapy.org/' target='_blank'>scrapy.org</a>
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<b>Scraping Hub</b>: <a href='http://scrapinghub.com/' target='_blank'>scrapinghub.com</a>
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<b>Pablo on Twitter</b>: <a href='https://twitter.com/PabloHoffman' target='_blank'>@PabloHoffman</a>
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<b>Pablo' site</b>: <a href='http://pablohoffman.com/' target='_blank'>pablohoffman.com</a>
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<b>Michael's Video Project</b>:
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<a href='https://blog.michaelckennedy.net/2016/02/16/im-building-20-online-python-courses-and-i-need-your-help-video-course-library-announced/' target='_blank'>blog.michaelckennedy.net/2016/02/16/im-building-20-online-python-courses-and-i-need-your-help-video-course-library-announced</a>
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