Project Description for Stock Scraper
Explore how to build a stock scraper by parsing the HTML DOM tree of various websites. Learn techniques to identify and extract stock price data dynamically, assign confidence scores to HTML tags, and calculate maximum profit from stock trends. This lesson prepares you to tackle common real-world challenges in web scraping and 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 ...