Practice Introduction To Web Scraping And Automation (4) - Chapter 12: Working with External Libraries and APIs

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Question 1.
What is web scraping?
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Think about the data on web pages.
Question 2.
Name one library used for web scraping in Python.
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What tool do we use to fetch data?
3Question 3.
What is web scraping?
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Think about data extraction.
4Question 4.
The robots.txt file is used to... (True/False)
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It's like a guide for web crawlers.
Question 5.
Write a Python script that scrapes quotes from a quote website and prints them.
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Think about what tags hold the text of the quotes.
Question 6.
Discuss the legal implications of scraping data from a website that has a clear terms of service against scraping.
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Consider the consequences of ignoring rules.

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