Practice What Is Web Scraping? (4.1) - Chapter 12: Working with External Libraries and APIs

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Question 1.
What is the primary purpose of web scraping?
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Think about what data extraction means.
Question 2.
Name one library used for web scraping in Python.
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Consider libraries for HTML parsing.
3Question 3.
What does web scraping typically involve?
- Extracting data from APIs
- Extracting data from websites
- Both A and B
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Think about where you would find data if not in an API.
4Question 4.
True or False: BeautifulSoup can be used for parsing HTML and XML.
- True
- False
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What kind of data formats does BeautifulSoup support?
Question 5.
Using BeautifulSoup, write a function that takes a URL as input and returns all unique hyperlinks on that page.
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Focus on ensuring that the links are stored in a set to allow uniqueness.
Question 6.
Discuss the impacts of aggressive web scraping on websites, and propose solutions to mitigate these impacts.
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Think about server load and how webmasters can respond.

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