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Python-- webscraping for the content in "expand" button with beautifulsoup

I am scraping a yellow page to get the name of all physiotherapists in a city. With the url I get the list of 50 physiotherapists, however, when I expand the page, the url does not change. How do I get the full list of names? This is how I get the…
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How to catch requests.get() exceptions

I'm working on a web scraper for yellowpages.com, which seems to be working well overall. However, while iterating through the pagination of a long query, requests.get(url) will randomly return or . Occassionally, I…
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Code to check whether site has been listed on search engines and directories

I am currently developing an application in Rails, which requires to check whether a website has been listed in Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yelp and Yellow Pages. From my research the best is to check site: domain.com on Google and Bing and look for…
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Questioning Dependency Injection through name-lookup

I find myself struggling with the fuzz around the concept of string-based 'Service Locators'. For starters, IoC is great, and programming to interfaces is the way to go. But I fail to see where the big benefit lies in the yellow-pages pattern used…
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Angular2 CORS API GET

I am attempting to use the APIs exposed by Yellow Pages. When I connect using Postman I receive back valid JSON or XML. However, as is described in numerous other StackOverflow posts, when submitted via my Angular2 application the browser returns…
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Connecting Search Form in Ruby with Sinatra

I have a search form I'm using with the YP (Yellow Pages) API, coded in Ruby, with Sinatra. I've managed to connect all the dots getting the search to work on the back-end, but am having trouble connecting the search form to the API call. Everything…
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Finding POI/business directory data to import

I'm creating an app, and I need a basic business directory data per city such as restaurant's name, address, and phone#, and import it into my database. Anyone knows where I can do that? Is there anything like it that's free? maybe not too…
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Business location dataset

I'm looking for a good dataset of business locations, hopefully for all of the USA. I'd love to have "name," "business type," and "lat/long," although I'd settle for "street address" rather than "lat/long," and I could geocode the points…
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Yellow Pages Scraper in Python Not working

I am trying to scrape data from Yellow Pages. I used this scraper many times, but it has recently stopped. Got this error 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group' 0 results found can anyone please help me to fix this problem Where am I going…
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Scraping yellowpages

I am trying to scrape data from people.yellowpages.com i only need is Email,Phone,Address. I have been working on this code lately and it worked for business related organizations. but when it comes to searching for person data it doesn't work.…
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Need helpwith YellowPages spider

I'm new to scrapy, I've been able to create a few spiders so far. I would like to write a spider that will crawl Yellowpages, looking for websites that have a 404 response, the spider is working OK, however, the pagination is not working. Any help…
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Better way of generating unpredictable, short alphanumeric id for database entries

I'm working on a yellow pages site that has around 1 million entries. I'm currently using random md5 hash as id but think its a bad idea (being longer, consumes more space). Is there any nicer way of generating an unpredictable, random, short…
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Is there a way to get Jamaica Yellow Pages to show search results on my website?

I've been searching for quite a while on how can you view search results based on a PHP form on a client's site pulling the data from Jamaican Yellow Pages. I've found APIs for the Canadian one (http://www.yellowapi.com/), but nothing else. I've…
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Query yellowpages.com to return street addresses

I am trying to take a list of names and zip codes from Excel, input them sequentially one name and zip code at a time into the search fields at www.yellowpages.com and return street address results to Excel in the same sequence as the original names…
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Search Form Displaying Business Name with Business URL from API

I am creating a simple search using the Yellow Pages API, coded in Ruby and Sinatra, and I'd like to display the search result business listing with a clickable URL. I have coded in both fields for "businessName" and "moreInfoURL" from the YP API,…
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