Best Practices: Web Scraping

Include Other Informations in the Scraping Process

Now that we have understood how the scraping process works let's finish the job and also include the missing information in our process!

Task

Import pandas and initialize an empty df.
Create a for loop to iterate over all tags.
Scrape the country name, the capital city, population, and area.
Append the scraped values in the df.

Mark tasks as Completed

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Section 1. Chapter 6

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Course Content

Best Practices: Web Scraping

Best Practices: Web Scraping

Introduction The Requests Library Parse the HTML Content Using BeautifulSoup Extract the Desired Attribute Store Scraped Data Into a Pandas DataFrame Include Other Informations in the Scraping Process Regular Expressions

Include Other Informations in the Scraping Process

Now that we have understood how the scraping process works let's finish the job and also include the missing information in our process!

Task

Import pandas and initialize an empty df.
Create a for loop to iterate over all tags.
Scrape the country name, the capital city, population, and area.
Append the scraped values in the df.

Mark tasks as Completed

Everything was clear?

Section 1. Chapter 6

AVAILABLE TO ULTIMATE ONLY

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