Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Finding the Selectors for Table Data

Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Finding the Selectors for Table Data

Assessment

Interactive Video

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Information Technology (IT), Architecture

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University

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Practice Problem

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Hard

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Wayground Content

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The video tutorial explains how to inspect and extract data from HTML tables using Chrome developer tools and CSS selectors. It covers the structure of tables, identifying elements, and handling errors during data extraction. The tutorial also demonstrates how to extract group names, team names, and detailed data from tables, ensuring accurate data scraping for web scraping projects.

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What tool is used to inspect the elements of a webpage?

Chrome Developer Tools

Safari Web Inspector

Edge DevTools

Firefox Developer Tools

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the table structure, what is the immediate parent of a 'span' element?

Table Body

Table Header

Table Detail

Table Row

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What distinguishes the subgroup header from other rows in the table?

It is highlighted in bold

It is always the first row

It has a specific class name

It contains a unique ID

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which CSS selector is used to select the team name?

Span with class 'hide mobile'

A tag with class 'anchor link'

P tag with class 'team'

Div with class 'team name'

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How many rows are typically selected to extract group and team names?

5

4

3

6

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the purpose of slicing the first five rows in the table?

To get the first five team names

To extract the group label and team names

To remove unnecessary data

To sort the data alphabetically

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which element is used to store the points in the table?

Last TD

Third TD

Second TD

First TD

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