I stumbled upon the JSON API because I wanted to scrape the latitude and longitude of the pins on their embedded Google Maps map. Let’s go through and find how to access their backend API to scrape data about listings in a given area. Just nice, simple JSON.Ī uses this kind of framework (specifically Backbone and Handlebars, I think?). I’m going to show you how to find the URL to access that dynamic content so you can easily scrape data from a site, without lxml or BeautifulSoup or CSS selectors or XPath. Some sites use frontend frameworks which render dynamic content by loading a JSON or XML file from their backend to populate the user-facing site. I was trying to help someone with a web scraping task today, and stumbled upon an interesting technique to find hidden APIs to scrape data from certain websites.
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