4 - Introduction to Web Scraping and Automation
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Practice Questions
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What is web scraping?
💡 Hint: Think about the data on web pages.
Name one library used for web scraping in Python.
💡 Hint: What tool do we use to fetch data?
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What is web scraping?
💡 Hint: Think about data extraction.
The robots.txt file is used to... (True/False)
💡 Hint: It's like a guide for web crawlers.
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Write a Python script that scrapes quotes from a quote website and prints them.
💡 Hint: Think about what tags hold the text of the quotes.
Discuss the legal implications of scraping data from a website that has a clear terms of service against scraping.
💡 Hint: Consider the consequences of ignoring rules.
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