Practice What is Web Scraping? - 4.1 | Chapter 12: Working with External Libraries and APIs | Python Advance
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is the primary purpose of web scraping?

💡 Hint: Think about what data extraction means.

Question 2

Easy

Name one library used for web scraping in Python.

💡 Hint: Consider libraries for HTML parsing.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What does web scraping typically involve?

  • Extracting data from APIs
  • Extracting data from websites
  • Both A and B

💡 Hint: Think about where you would find data if not in an API.

Question 2

True or False: BeautifulSoup can be used for parsing HTML and XML.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: What kind of data formats does BeautifulSoup support?

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

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.

Question 2

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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