Scraping Smarter with Content Filtering
Scrapy is a powerful web scraping framework and essential tool for building machine learning datasets. For sites with simple structure, scrapy makes it easy to curate a dataset after launching a spider. Check out the tutorials in scrapy’s documentation. To train a poster similarity model, we first gathered hundreds of thousands of movie posters. More concretely, when scraping IMDb.com, we may be interested in gathering posters from <img> tags under <div> tags with the class "poster"....