1.2 - BeautifulSoup
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Practice Questions
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What does BeautifulSoup do?
💡 Hint: Think of it as a tool for extracting data from web pages.
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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What is the primary function of BeautifulSoup?
💡 Hint: Think about what you use it for in web scraping.
True or False: You should always scrape data from websites regardless of their policies.
💡 Hint: Consider the responsibilities that come with web scraping.
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Challenge Problems
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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.
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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