What do you do when you're working with an amazing web application that, for whatever reason, doesn't have an API?

One option is to say, gee, I wish that site had an API and just give up.

Or you could use Scrappy, an open source web scraping framework from Pablo Hoffman and scrapinghub.com, and create your own API.

On episode 50 of Talk Python to Me,

we'll talk about how to do this,

when it makes sense,

and even when it's allowed.

This episode has been recorded February 16th, 2016.

I'm a developer,

I'm a developer

in many senses of the word

because I make these applications,

but I also use these verbs to make this music.

I constructed line by line, just like when I'm coding another software design.

In both cases, it's about design patterns.

Anyone can get the job done.

It's the execution that matters.

I have many interests. Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.

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