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I have a list of artists in an excel file with the urls of all their social medias accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Soundcloud, Twitter and Youtube).Is there any fast way to scrape the number of followers for each account and report it in the excel file? I have more than 2000 artists so it will be very helpful if I could automate the task.. Thank you for your responses :)

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Malik
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    Hey you need to try your own first show us your code and than we will help – Nikhil Parmar Jul 17 '16 at 17:56
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    **What have you tried?** – Ankur Gupta Jul 17 '16 at 17:58
  • Scrap or Scrape? Big difference on what you want to do with those numbers 8) – Forward Ed Jul 17 '16 at 18:58
  • @NikhilParmar I'm not a real coder my self, I never used Python before so I was searching for a quick answer here. But you're right I should have tried something before asking, it's always more productive. i'll get back to you guys when I'm stucked. Thx :) – Malik Jul 18 '16 at 10:25
  • @malik that's d spirit – Nikhil Parmar Jul 18 '16 at 10:27
  • @AnkurGupta Nothing for the moment, i'll go with the solution of Jack first and try to write a little spider in python if it doesn't work, even though i'm a real newbie. – Malik Jul 18 '16 at 10:28
  • @ForwardEd I guess I meant "scrape". I just want to collect the data. Sorry for the poor english :) – Malik Jul 18 '16 at 10:29

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If

  1. You don't have previous expriences in making a spider.
  2. Some of these sites required login for viewing those number.
  3. You only have to do this for one-time.

You may checkout selenium-python, a youtube video

It's

  1. Intuitive. you can see how your program run, it controls a real browser.
  2. Easy to handle captcha. you can just pause the program and type the captcha your self.

Downside:

  1. Slow. It just fired up a real browser.
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  • Thank you @jack. Indeed I have no previous experience so i'll try this out and let you know. Thanks a lot! :) – Malik Jul 18 '16 at 10:31
  • There's a lot of tutorials out there. Things will be pretty straight forward, since you are actually controlling a browser. But please make sure that performance doesn't matter, (e.g. you do not need to scrap in realtime), selenium is mainly for automated testing rather than scraping. – jack Jul 18 '16 at 12:52