Web Scraping | Freelance Tips | Python coding | Paid jobs | (Not just UpWork BS)

Freelance coding can be challenging, and mixing technical skills with business skills is not always easy. For a change we leave the office and go for a walk in the countryside and reflect on a few lessons learned from real world, paid web scraping and Python coding jobs. I rarely make a video like this as there are in my view, too many "lifestyle coders" - who make videos and spend 20 mins showing off their overpriced MacBook pro and IKEA furniture and latest sneakers and show about 1 minute of coding.... (Sorry if that's you - no offence). Anyway, in this video I'll cover VPN/Paid Proxies : which should you buy, which should the client pay for? I'll also discuss load balancers, and checking xpath/css selectors on-the-fly using regex. What do I mean by that? Well if you have a default code, or product number or id number, you can search the response from that search and track across the html and see if the corresponding xpath/css is still what you expect. If not, grab the newer id or class name and substitute that further down in your code. Do a pre-flight check of you selectors before you enter a for loop to grab the main data! The next videos will all be back to the desk, so fear not, the channel is not turning into a 'look at me, I'm making millions, and have a 34" screen' channel! No chapter times here, as you need to watch all of it! Thumbs up, subscribe, all that yeah? (Cos algos!) Links: ========= 12 Factor : https://12factor.net/config Pareto Principle : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle Load Balancing : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/what-is-load-balancing Visit redandgreen blog for more Tutorials ========================================= 🌏 http://redandgreen.co.uk/about/blog/ Subscribe to the YouTube Channel ================================= 🌏 https://www.youtube.com/c/DrPiCode Follow on Twitter - to get notified of new videos ================================================= 🌏 https://twitter.com/RngWeb Buy Dr Pi a coffee (or Tea) ☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DrPi Proxies ================================================= If you need a good, easy to use proxy, I was recommended this one, and having used ScraperAPI for a while I can vouch for them. If you were going to sign up anyway, then maybe you would be kind enough to use the link and the coupon code below? You can also do a full working trial first as well, (unlike some other companies). The trial doesn't ask for any payment details either so all good! 👍 🌏 10% off ScraperAPI : https://www.scraperapi.com?fpr=ken49 ◼️ Coupon Code: DRPI10 (You can also get started with 1000 free API calls. No credit card required.) Thumbs up yeah? (cos Algos..) #webscraping #freelance #python