Tag: Selenium

Anonymous Web Scraping with Python Selenium PhantomJS Xpath and TOR
Using pure selenium methods to extract data from metasearch websites is quite tricky and uses a lot of CPU resources. I have spent significant amount of time with selenium built-in methods with python and have a feeling that the development is quite tedious, time consuming and prone to bugs. Selenium’s WebElement objects are not flexible, ...

How to crawl Hotel Informations from booking using Python and Selenium
This post continues on the last one. Assuming you have the hotel list with urls from booking you can now extract addresses for each hotel. This address can be further converted to latitude and longitude since geo information that can be crawled from booking is not quite right. The script below extracts the address and hotel star ...

How to crawl hotel names and urls from booking.com using Python and Selenium
You might be needing a list of all hotels in your city for any reason. Most of them can be found at booking.com (assuming it’s a city in Europe). If you need hotel names, ratings and/or hotel url list from any city you can crawl booking for it. Coding it with Python and selenium is pretty easy. Below ...