How To Web Scrape Dynamic Website And JSON Decode With Detailed Examples
In this article, Flutter / Dart is the main language used to demonstrate how to web scrape a dynamic website and then JSON decode into Map or List. But the general idea also applies to Java and Python. When we talk about web scraping, we think of Beautiful Soup immediately. Unfortunately, most websites nowadays are dynamic. And Beautiful Soup only works for static websites. Today I'll explain how to scrape a dynamic website. I'll use TheWeatherNetwork.com as an example. The Weather Network is my favorite weather forecast website. 1. Determine whether the website is dynamic Take a look at the screen capture of The Weather Network website showing current weather of Vancouver, BC Canada. This demo will grab those 3 pieces of information in red circles. They're current condition description, current temperature and current feels-like temperature. Beautiful Soup can only analyze the page source content. Let's see if we can find current condition "A few clouds" in ...