What are the best resources to learn about web crawling and scraping?

What are some good resources to learn about web scraping and data mining for Twitter, for example, for Python?

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    There are few books available in the market through which you can learn about various recipes. I would suggest the following books by by Mathew Russel : 21 recipes for mining Twitter Mining the social web Both the books use Python tools. So if you are comfortable using Python, it will be really helpful.

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Also there is the Python course on CodeAcademy: http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python

Andronic Alexandru

I would watch Youtube videos. There are several good ones and I learned with them how to scrape. I also heart from a friend who used this service https://myhelpster.com/scrape-twitter-followers-any-account/. They do it but also explain how it works. I think he was satisfied.

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