Project Description for Stock Scraper
Explore how to build a stock scraper by parsing diverse HTML DOM structures to extract stock price data. Learn to assign confidence scores to DOM elements, navigate nodes efficiently, and calculate maximum profit from stock changes. This lesson equips you with techniques applicable to various coding interview challenges.
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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 ...