Monday, December 23, 2019

How to Scrape Data From Yellow Pages Using Python ??

This Tutorial will explain you how we can scrape yellow pages data using python.

Have you heard about yellow pages  Scraping ?? Here is the detail to scrape yellow pages using python coding.
scrape yellow pages provides updated data information along with Business name , URL ,Street name, Locality , state  ,and more..

We can perform yellow pages scraping and Extract Following Data using python yellow pages scraper.

  • Business Name
  • URL
  • Street Name
  • Locality
  • State
  • Country
  • Postal code
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Website
  • Number of reviews
  • Ratings
  • hours
  • categories
Screen shot  from data will be extracting
scrape yellow pages
Inspecting element for data extractions
To find appropriate data from website first we have to  inspecting and understanding html tag  which is associated with given data ..
please follow below steps to finding tags
  • Open browser (Google Chrome , Mozilla )
  • Copy and paste url you want to scrape.
  • Press F12 to view HTML structure and json file of given site.,
  • Find tags for require data
Here we have explained for finding price tag how can we find it , like this  other tags can easily find…
How to set up your computer for web scraper development
We will use Python 3 for this tutorial. The code will not run if you are using Python 2.7. To start, you need a computer with Python 3 and PIP installed in it.
Let’s check your python version. Open a terminal ( in Linux and Mac OS ) or Command Prompt ( on Windows ) and type
python –version
and press enter. If the output looks something like Python 3.x.x, you have Python 3 installed. If it says Python 2.x.x you have Python 2. If it prints an error, you don’t probably have python installed.
If you don’t have Python 3, install it first.
Install Python 3 and Pip
Mac Users can follow this guide – https://www.python.org/downloads/mac-osx/
Windows Users go here – https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
For PIP installation   visit this link  – https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/install-pip-windows/
Install Packages
  • Python Requests, to make requests and download the HTML content of the pages ( http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/install/).
  • Python LXML, for parsing the HTML Tree Structure using Xpath (Learn how to install that here – http://lxml.de/installation.html)
Code to Scrape yellow pages
import requests
from lxml import html
import requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions
import json
from urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
# below code send http get request to yellowpages.com
# return content in form of string
# lib Refernce
# 1 :- request
def getRequest(url):
headers = {‘Accept’‘text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8’,
‘Accept-Encoding’‘gzip, deflate, br’,
‘Accept-Language’‘en-GB,en;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,ml;q=0.7’,
‘User-Agent’‘Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36’}
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(InsecureRequestWarning)
response = requests.get(url, verify=False, headers=headers)
return response.text
# This method is use to parse data from string
# Return object with data
# lib Refrence
# 1 :- lxml
# 2 : json
def parseData(strHtml):
parser = html.fromstring(strHtml)
strJson = parser.xpath(‘//script[@type=”application/ld+json”]’)[0]
jObject = json.loads(strJson.text)
businessName = jObject[“name”]
url = jObject[“@id”]
url = “https://www.yellowpages.com” + url
streetName = jObject[“address”][“streetAddress”]
locality = jObject[“address”][“addressLocality”]
state = jObject[“address”][“addressRegion”]
country = jObject[“address”][“addressCountry”]
postalCode = jObject[“address”][“postalCode”]
latitude = jObject[“geo”][“latitude”]
longitude = jObject[“geo”][“longitude”]
phone = jObject[“telephone”]
email = jObject[“email”]
email = email.replace(“mailto:”“”)
website = jObject[“url”]
numberOfReviews = jObject[“aggregateRating”][“reviewCount”]
rating = jObject[“aggregateRating”][“ratingValue”]
hours = jObject[“openingHours”]
categories = []
for cat in parser.xpath(‘//dd[@class=”categories”]/span/a’):
categories.append(cat.text)
return {
‘Business Name’: businessName,
‘URL’: url,
‘Street Name’: streetName,
‘Locality’: locality,
‘State’: state,
‘Country’: country,
‘Postal Code’: postalCode,
‘Latitude’: latitude,
‘Longitude’: longitude,
‘Phone’: phone,
‘Email’: email,
‘Website’: website,
‘Categories’: categories,
‘Hours’: hours,
‘Number Of Review’: numberOfReviews,
‘Rating’: rating
}
if __name__ == “__main__”:
print(‘Scraping Data from yellow Pages’)
url = ‘https://www.yellowpages.com/los-angeles-ca/mip/las-cazuelas-restaurant-886502’print(‘Url :- ‘+url)
strHtml = getRequest(url)
result = parseData(strHtml)
print(result)
Above code is developed for Python 3.X  .. Run in any IDE  like PyCharm , sublime text etc…  We got here json file , we can also extract these data into sql database , export in CSV , Excel with modification in coding..
Here  using lxml library  data is extracted , you can do using beautifulsoup 4 also we can extract data from any website..
Run above code in any IDE of python and you will get result in JSON..  for test you can use another url from eBay..
Clarification :- This  code available in this tutorial is  only learning purpose . We are not responsible for how it is used and assume no liability for any detrimental usage of the source code. This code is only  use for knowledge expansion regarding programming field.. by this tutorial we are not encourage eBay scraping or web scraping but will help to understand scraping.. also we are not responsible to provide any support for this code .. user can modify for learning purpose..

Thursday, December 27, 2018

USA Yellow pages scraping : Scrape business data from yellow pages business directory

USA yellow pages scraping
Yellow pages scraper fulfills your requirement of getting business details from yellow pages website automatically. Covert these extracted unstructured data in to proper structured form. Then deliver data in one of the various formats like text file, XML or CSV as per demand. Nontechnical person also easily use yellow pages scraper to gather data only by one click. Another way is to go for Yellow pages scraping services that provides ready database as per your business requirement. Only tell your business need according to that yellow pages scraping services provider give you accurate database.

Details by Yellow pages scraping :
Yellow pages scraper provide business name, description, business contact details, city details, Location, phone and FAX numbers, website URLs, and most important ratings and reviews.

Yellow pages scraping uses:

• Getting Business Oriented Data.
• Know about the newest businesses and start-ups that registered on yellow pages.
• Aware about existence of the competitors and competitor’s activity.
• To build email list for marketing hence to generate leads for business.
• To create source for digital marketing for business.
• Gathering enough data to analysis business for progress of success path.
• Scraping at regular interval like weekly or monthly basis to get updated information.

Why yellow pages directory among all other directories?

Yellow pages directories available in various countries like USA, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and more. USA yellow pages directory contains all category business types and services. Yellow pages is one of reputed business directory in USA. All business put their first choice to register their business in yellow pages among various available USA business directories listings. Yellow pages carry true business data as they verify business details first and then approve business listing. Because of yellow pages is trusted directory it is really helpful to collect business information from yellow pages for analysis.
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