Project Description for Stock Scraper
Explore the process of scraping stock data from websites by parsing HTML DOM trees in Kotlin. Learn to assign confidence scores to identify relevant data, optimize traversal using next pointers, and perform profit analysis from stock price changes to build an effective stock scraper.
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 ...