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When scraping content from the web, you often crawl websites which you have no prior knowledge of. Link analysis algorithms are incredibly useful in these scenarios to guide the crawler to relevant pages.

In the context of web scraping, XPath is a nice tool to have in your belt, as it allows you to write specifications of document locations more flexibly than CSS selectors.

We have released an lxml-based version of this code as an open-source library called extruct. The Source code is on Github, and the package is available on PyPI. Enjoy!

We use the scikit-learn library for various machine-learning tasks at Zyte. For example, for text classification we'd typically build a statistical model using sklearn's Pipeline, FeatureUnion, some classifier (e.g. LinearSVC) + feature extraction and preprocessing classes.

Our customers often ask us what's the best workflow for working with Scrapy projects.

We often have to write spiders that need to login to sites, in order to scrape data from them. Our customers provide us with the site, username and password, and we do the rest.