August 2019
Beginner
482 pages
12h 56m
English
Content preview from Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications
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Questions
- What does the term web scraping mean in this context?
- What are the biggest differences between scraping and using an API? What are the challenges?
- What exactly does Beautiful Soup do? Can we scrape without it?
- Why did we use recursion here?
- Should we clean data during scraping?
- What is the right approach to dealing with missing data or broken links?