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Posted by johnbourque
johnbourque
1,867 Points

Where do I find JSON data?

I don't know how to find the JSON data for a blog. For instance, how do I find the data for http://www.shellibourque.com/ ?

1 Answer

Dai Phong
Dai Phong
20,395 Points
Dai Phong
Dai Phong
20,395 Points

Hi John, the site must provide the JSON API (Data), if it is not, don't have any JSON data

johnbourque
johnbourque
1,867 Points

Hi Dai, thank you for your quick response. If the site must provide the JSON data then how do commercial blog readers retrieve blog posts?

Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points

A web scraper could be used if a site lacks an API.

johnbourque
johnbourque
1,867 Points

Hi Ricky, how do I go about finding and using a web scraper?

Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points

This is a great tutorial for web scraping with Python. http://newcoder.io/scrape/ I cant think of a tutorial in any other language off the top of my head but I will look around.

A web scraper is almost like a spider that a search engine uses to crawl the web and pull in information.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

commercial blog readers retrieve blog posts

Blog readers use RSS, many blogs provide RSS feeds.

In general scraping content from a site you aren't authorized is often a copyright violation.