Code as a Liberal Art, Spring 2022

Unit 2, Tutorial 4 lesson — Wednesday, March 30

More advanced webscraping with DOM trees

Today in class we will primarily focus on the material from Tutorial 3 that we have not yet had the chance to get to.

We will start by focusing on the following sections from the Tutorial 3 table of contents:

3. Navigating a parse tree
   • (a) Anatomy of an HTML tag
   • (b) Special attributes: id and class
4. More advanced techniques with BeautifulSoup
5. Searching the DOM
6. An example, NYTimes.com

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