Practice BeautifulSoup - 1.2 | Chapter 12: Working with External Libraries and APIs | Python Advance
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Question 1

Easy

What does BeautifulSoup do?

💡 Hint: Think of it as a tool for extracting data from web pages.

Question 2

Easy

What is the purpose of a parse tree in BeautifulSoup?

💡 Hint: Remember how we discussed trees in the context of data representation.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What is the primary function of BeautifulSoup?

  • Data analysis
  • HTML parsing
  • Web design

💡 Hint: Think about what you use it for in web scraping.

Question 2

True or False: You should always scrape data from websites regardless of their policies.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Consider the responsibilities that come with web scraping.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

You are tasked with scraping product data from an e-commerce website. Discuss how you would structure your BeautifulSoup code to extract product names and prices and handle potential errors.

💡 Hint: Consider what the expected HTML structure might look like.

Question 2

Imagine you are working on a team project to scrape news articles from a site that has pagination. How would you approach the task to ensure you gather all articles without missing any?

💡 Hint: Tracking the page numbers and how to formulate the URL dynamically will be crucial.

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