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Key information

Key information is stored right below the map and includes dates, locations, and outcomes. Let's call this section the main one. As you can see via the developer console, this section is designed as a table with two columns – the first column representing a key (metric names), and the second, corresponding values. Indeed, it is very similar to how dictionaries are structured, so let's write a generic converter from this two-column table to a dictionary. Take a look at the following snippet. Here, we traverse through rows, adding the value of the first column as a key, and the second as a value, to the dictionary:

def _table_to_dict(table):    result = {}    for row in table.find_all('tr'): result[row.th.text] = row.td.get_text().strip() ...