Data Parsing: The Basic, the Easy, and the Difficult

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OxyCast

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OxyCast is a podcast discussing all things web scraping hosted by Oxylabs, a market-leading proxy solutions provider. Join us for talks on a variety of data gathering topics – from why it exists to our everyday issues, solutions, tips, and what’s new in the web scraping community.

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Data Parsing: The Basic, the Easy, and the Difficult | Episode 3

OxyCast

31 minutes 52 seconds

3 years ago

Data Parsing: The Basic, the Easy, and the Difficult | Episode 3

In the #3 episode of OxyCast, the host, Augustinas Kalvis, and a special guest – Povilas Kudriavcevas (both are Software Engineers at Oxylabs), will discuss data parsing basics and go through the easy and the difficult parts of the process. Augustinas and Povilas will also explain how to parse an item and speculate what may be the future of data parsing.*

In this podcast episode, you’ll learn:

What the process of parsing an item is like
Writing a good selector
How to monitor a parser
Practices of testing a parser
Making the parser scalable
How to handle constant website layout changes

*Information provided in this episode is based on our clients’ use of Oxylabs’ innovative solutions and tools for scraping publicly available data.

Listen to the #3 OxyCast episode on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and SoundCloud.

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