Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Extracting Data from HTML Tables

This video tutorial covers how to select and extract data from HTML tables. It explains the structure of HTML tables, including table elements like rows and cells. The tutorial also discusses the use of table headings (TH) and data cells (TD) in HTML tables, highlighting how to identify and work with these elements in a web page's code.

What is the main purpose of the table body in an HTML table?

• To hold the data rows of the table

• To define the overall structure of the table

• To style the table with CSS

• To contain the table's header information

How can you visually identify a table row in an HTML document?

• By hovering over it to see it highlighted

• By its font style

• By its background color

• By its unique ID attribute

What HTML element is typically used to define a table row?

• Which HTML element is used for table headings?