Web Crawling with Nodejs (H&M, Amazon, LinkedIn, AliExpress)
What you'll learn
- Differences between web crawling and web scraping in Nodejs
- The 3 main methods to use in web crawling, and when to use what method!
- How to get data from sites like H&M and AliExpress easily and fast using their hidden API's
- How to build a web crawler for server rendered sites like Amazon to crawl all their products
- How to build a Puppeteer based web crawler for a site that requires JavaScript like Linkedin
Requirements
- Basic JavaScript
Description
Do you want to build a webcrawler in Nodejs?
In this course you will learn how to build a webcrawler using the newest JavaScript syntax with popular sites like H&M, Amazon, LinkedIn and AliExpress!
You'll learn how to find hidden API's on sites like H&M and AliExpress and see how you can even avoid building a web crawler in the first place, you can save a lot of time this way!
Then I show how to build a web crawler for Amazon the test-driven way, by building out tests for the various product page layouts there is on Amazon.
After that we'll take a look at how to automate login and scraping profiles from LinkedIn using Puppeteer, the automated Chromium browser!
Who this course is for:
- Students looking to learn web crawling with Nodejs
- Students looking to learn web scraping with Nodejs
Instructor
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 3,372 Reviews
- 39,139 Students
- 8 Courses
Stefan has been building software since elementary school starting out with Visual Basic 6.0. Since then he has been dabbling with Python(Pygame), PHP & MySQL, and Java during university. Since he discovered the JavaScript world he found an intense interest in web development especially using ReactJs/React Native and using NodeJs for the backend.