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OpenCorporates
The Open Database Of The Corporate World

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Here are some tutorials that might help you find your feet when you're writing your first scraper:

Python

  • A Python tutorial focussed on web scraping
  • Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
  • A worked example of scraping parliamentary data
  • Another worked example of scraping a website
  • An IPython notebook about using BeautifulSoup to parse HTML
  • The Scrapy tutorial

Ruby

  • An introduction to web scraping
  • A worked example of scraping Craigslist
  • A Nokogiri tutorial
  • A Mechanize tutorial

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