Web Scraping with Python
Scrape data from any website with the power of Python
Richard Lawson
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Web Scraping with Python
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About the Author
Richard Lawson is from Australia and studied Computer Science at the University
of Melbourne. Since graduating, he built a business specializing at web scraping
while traveling the world, working remotely from over 50 countries. He is a
uent Esperanto speaker, conversational at Mandarin and Korean, and active in
contributing to and translating open source software. He is currently undertaking
postgraduate studies at Oxford University and in his spare time enjoys developing
autonomous drones.
I would like to thank Professor Timothy Baldwin for introducing me
to this exciting eld and Tharavy Douc for hosting me in Paris while
I wrote this book.
