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“OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted” when installing Scrapy in OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) (System Integrity Protection)

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I’m trying to install Scrapy Python framework in OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) via pip. The installation script downloads the required modules and at some point returns the following error: OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: ‘/tmp/pip-nIfswi-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info’ I’ve tried to deactivate the rootless feature in OSX 10.11 with the command: sudo nvram boot-args=”rootless=0″;sudo reboot but I … Read more

Scraping: SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error for http://en.wikipedia.org

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I’m practicing the code from ‘Web Scraping with Python’, and I keep having this certificate problem: from urllib.request import urlopen from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import re pages = set() def getLinks(pageUrl): global pages html = urlopen(“http://en.wikipedia.org”+pageUrl) bsObj = BeautifulSoup(html) for link in bsObj.findAll(“a”, href=re.compile(“^(/wiki/)”)): if ‘href’ in link.attrs: if link.attrs[‘href’] not in pages: #We have … Read more

Cannot install Lxml on Mac OS X 10.9

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I want to install Lxml so I can then install Scrapy. When I updated my Mac today it wouldn’t let me reinstall lxml, I get the following error: In file included from src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:314: /private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml/src/lxml/includes/etree_defs.h:9:10: fatal error: ‘libxml/xmlversion.h’ file not found #include “libxml/xmlversion.h” ^ 1 error generated. error: command ‘cc’ failed with exit status 1 I … Read more

Headless Browser and scraping – solutions [closed]

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Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question I’m trying to put list of possible solutions for browser automatic tests suits and headless browser platforms capable of … Read more