Project Description for Stock Scraper
Explore how to build a dynamic stock scraper by parsing HTML DOM trees, assigning confidence scores to identify stock data, and calculating potential profits. Understand key techniques for traversing web structures and preparing for interview challenges related to web scraping.
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 ...