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HTML elements and DOM navigation

We will be using http://books.toscrape.com/ from http://toscrape.com/. toscrape provides resources related to web scraping for beginners and developers to learn and implement Scraper.

Let's open the http://books.toscrape.com URL using the web browser, Google Chrome, as shown here:

Inspect view of books.toscrape.com

As the page content is successfully loaded, we can load DevTools with a right-click on the page and press the option Inspect or by pressing Ctrl + Shift + I. If accessing through the Chrome menu, click More Tools and Developer Tools. The browser should look similar to the content in the preceding ...

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