4.2 - Example with requests + BeautifulSoup
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Practice Questions
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What does the requests library in Python do?
💡 Hint: Think about how we interact with web services.
What is JSON?
💡 Hint: It's commonly used in APIs.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What method is commonly used to retrieve data from an API?
💡 Hint: Remember the basic HTTP methods.
True or False: BeautifulSoup can only parse JSON.
💡 Hint: Think about the different formats BeautifulSoup can handle.
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Challenge Problems
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Create a Python function that accepts a URL and returns all titles (h1 tags) from that webpage.
💡 Hint: You will need both requests and BeautifulSoup to achieve this.
Using the requests library, show how you would handle timeouts when making a request.
💡 Hint: Think about proper error handling when you make requests.
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