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PaulDBrown
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6 years ago
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Scrape only relevant images from web

Good morning,   See if anyone can help a real beginner in M. I've been reading up on web scarping from various sources to see how to scrpe image urls from websites. I've been trying my luck with th...
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    PaulDBrown
    6 years ago

    edhans 

     

    Thanks again for your suggestion. I did eventually succeed in importing the image URLs, albeit tweaking the M code for the different websites. Just for general information, I imported about 3,500 different URLs, from about 1,650 different pages from 4 different websites. The whole process took over 6 hours probably (in fact I started the queries at around 20:00, checked well past midnight and it was more or less half way there...). 

     

    I subsequently decided I was also interest in importing some text from each of those pages, but have given up trying to work out the code for the selector etc needed...

     

    Thanks again!