4.1 - What is Web Scraping?
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Practice Questions
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What is the primary purpose of web scraping?
💡 Hint: Think about what data extraction means.
Name one library used for web scraping in Python.
💡 Hint: Consider libraries for HTML parsing.
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What does web scraping typically involve?
💡 Hint: Think about where you would find data if not in an API.
True or False: BeautifulSoup can be used for parsing HTML and XML.
💡 Hint: What kind of data formats does BeautifulSoup support?
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Using BeautifulSoup, write a function that takes a URL as input and returns all unique hyperlinks on that page.
💡 Hint: Focus on ensuring that the links are stored in a set to allow uniqueness.
Discuss the impacts of aggressive web scraping on websites, and propose solutions to mitigate these impacts.
💡 Hint: Think about server load and how webmasters can respond.
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