Gain practical experience in web scraping by tackling two coding challenges designed to extract specific text and HTML tag data. Strengthen your programming capabilities by practicing targeted scraping techniques.
Key Insights
- The first coding challenge requires participants to programmatically locate and extract specific text content from a provided webpage.
- The second challenge involves retrieving and printing text from the first 10 anchor (a) tags on a page, emphasizing precision to avoid excessive data (hundreds of tags).
- Participants apply hands-on web scraping methods, reinforcing their skills in targeted HTML data extraction practices.
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Let's give you a couple of challenges here. The first challenge is finding this text somewhere on the page we’ve given you—scrape it, and print out the text from the tag that contains it. It will actually be just this text. Print it out, scrape it programmatically, and get it into your code output.
The second challenge is to find all `` tags on the page and print the text for the first 10. I want to stress this—if you try to print all of them, it will result in hundreds—maybe even thousands—of entries. So just print the text from the first 10 `` tags on the page.
All right, those are your two challenges. I'll let you folks go at it.