Project Description for Stock Scraper
Explore how to build a stock scraper that navigates HTML DOM structures to extract stock price data and perform profit analysis. Understand challenges like DOM traversal and data identification, and learn methods to efficiently parse web pages and calculate maximum profit from stock changes.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
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 ...