Project Description for Stock Scraper
Explore how to design a stock scraper by parsing website DOM structures and assigning confidence scores to identify stock price data. Understand how to traverse DOM trees efficiently and extract information to calculate maximum stock profits. This lesson prepares you to handle web scraping challenges relevant to coding interviews.
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 ...