Project Description for Stock Scraper
Explore techniques to scrape stock data by parsing and traversing HTML DOM trees from various websites. Understand how to assign confidence scores to identify relevant data, manage sibling nodes with next pointers, and calculate maximum stock profit changes. This lesson equips you with foundational skills for web scraping and data extraction in coding interviews.
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Introduction
Extracting data from a website is known as scraping. The main component of scraping is fetching data from the HTML DOM structure after receiving a response from the website. You can think of web scraping as a spider crawling over every corner of an HTML structure and retrieving information of interest.
The scenario and problems we will discuss in this chapter relate to scraping stock data from websites.
Statement
You are a developer ...