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Zyte Developers Community Newsletter Issue 7: A Year in Review

Engage with the seventh edition of our Zyte Developers Community Newsletter, celebrating the accomplishments of our vibrant developer community.

Himanshi Bhatt

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Zyte Developers Community Newsletter Issue 7: A Year in Review

Zyte Developers Community newsletter issue #7

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In this issue:

  • Web scraping and analyzing hotel data from TripAdvisor
  • Picking a realtor with data
  • Serverless web scraping with Scrapy on Google Cloud Platform
  • Scrapy is on discord!

Web scraping and analyzing hotel data from TripAdvisor

If you’re looking for hotel recommendations, Shivam Naik’s project can help. He uses BeautifulSoup to extract data from TripAdvisor and performs some insightful data analysis using pandas and matplotlib.

Picking a realtor with data

When Michel Floyd decided to put his house on the market, he turned to data to find the best realtor. He wrote a scraper in python to collect data from Zillow and analyzed multiple data fields like: days to sell, price per sq.ft., etc.

Serverless web scraping with Scrapy on Google Cloud Platform

Cloud services have revolutionized how we’re working with technology. José ties this idea into the world of web scraping by creating a serverless architecture for a web crawler.

Scrapy is on discord!

Scrapy is on Discord and it’s the hip new place for Scrapy lovers to hang out. Join the gang.

Want to be a developer advocate?

Zyte is looking for a Developer Advocate to show fellow developers the magic and wonder of web data extraction tools and platforms. You’ll get to create all types of content for Zyte and build long-lasting relationships with members of the community. Apply now.

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