Project Description for Stock Scraper
Explore how to build a stock scraper by extracting data from HTML DOM structures and traversing web pages dynamically. Understand how to assign confidence scores to identify stock price data, parse related elements efficiently, and calculate maximum profit from stock price changes. This lesson prepares you for practical web scraping challenges often faced in technical 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 ...