Selenium: Where there is No API
martes, el 5 de mayo de 2020 a las 16:15–16:25 PDT
Avalon
Presentation Topics
Alma
General development, coding, & APIs
General development, coding, & APIs
Presentation Topic Description
There are some tables in Alma and other applications where you need to retrieve or post data on a website that isn’t easily accessed except through the web interface. I.e. there’s no API and the form isn’t nicely presented in a table you can pull with web scraping tools.
This session will talk about how to use the Python implementation of Selenium for this purpose, and several different applications where this could be useful.