Python Web Scraping Cookbook: Over 90 proven recipes to get you scraping with Python, micro services, Docker and AWS

It's probably worth the read. I don't like the fact that Amazon is forcing me to write this review with no less than 18 words. It's too bad because the book isn't being reviewed here it's Amazon. How's that for 18 words Amazon?

I bought book trying to learn how I could download a few tables from the web into python. I had 2 issues that I needed help with: 1) sites that i need data from require passwords 2) sites have javascript that needs to run before I can grab data. After 4 hours, I got absolutely nothing out of this book and went to youtube / stack overflow (w/ these tools, I figured out my problem in less time than I spent w/ this book)The book starts off by going over a few details on many different scraping libraries. There isn't enough detail to do anything useful w/ webscraping, you just become aware of the existence of this libraries. The 2nd 2/3rds of the book focus exclusively with 'scrappy'. This appears to be a good resource for crawling (finding new websites to go onto); however, not so good for scraping known sites (certainly not for beginner / intermediate python users). If you want to go crawling, this may be a good book for you. I was stunned that reading HTML behind the sites you want to scrape was barely mentioned. This is a key element of any "how to" you can find on youtube and wo a lot of html experience, one of the more challenging parts of scraping.One of my biggest issues was w/ passwords. Book only offered 1/2 a page on this w/ an extremely simple example. Solution did not work on any of the 3 sites I tried it on. Also, I coudl not find 1 mention of what to do w/ javascript.Overall, useless book for me

This "book" feels like a collection of Stack Overflow answers to very basic topics with the added disadvantages that it's harder to navigate and you can't just copy-paste.I'm sending this one back.