Hey Hacker News,<p>Today Pierre and I are releasing the Java Web Scraping Handbook for FREE!<p>And by free we mean you don't even have to give us your email address!<p>Some backstory about the book: I originally wrote it in 2018 after working in different web scraping projects for startups (Mint.com like) and banks.<p>The first four chapters are language agnostic, and the last can be applied to any language, so don't be scared if you don't know Java!<p>By the end of the book, you will know:<p>- How to scrape any website<p>- Just enough XPath / Regex / DOM knowledge to be dangerous.<p>- How to deal with Javascript-heavy websites (Single Page application...)<p>- How to programmatically perform actions on a website behind a login form<p>- Parse information inside PDFs<p>- Bypass captchas<p>- Deploy your scrapers in the cloud<p>I'm happy to answer any questions about the book :)