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# Chapter 11 – Web Scraping
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> Q: 1. Briefly describe the differences between the webbrowser, requests, BeautifulSoup, and selenium modules.
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`webbrowser` can launch a web browser to a specific URL by `open()`;
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`requests` can download files and pages from the Web.
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`beautifulSoup` module parses HTML.
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`selenium` launch and control a browser.
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> Q: 2. What type of object is returned by requests.get()? How can you access the downloaded content as a string value?
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Response object. `getText()`.
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> Q: 3. What Requests method checks that the download worked?
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`raise_for_status()`
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> Q: 4. How can you get the HTTP status code of a Requests response?
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`status_code`
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> Q: 5. How do you save a Requests response to a file?
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```py
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saveFile = open('SaveFile', 'wb')
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for chunk in res.iter_content(100000):
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saveFile.write(chunk)
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saveFile.close()
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```
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> Q: 6. What is the keyboard shortcut for opening a browser’s developer tools?
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F12
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> Q: 7. How can you view (in the developer tools) the HTML of a specific element on a web page?
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Inspect Element
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> Q: 8. What is the CSS selector string that would find the element with an id attribute of main?
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`#main`
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> Q: 9. What is the CSS selector string that would find the elements with a CSS class of highlight?
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`.highlight`
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> Q: 10. What is the CSS selector string that would find all the `<div>` elements inside another `<div>` element?
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`div div`
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> Q: 11. What is the CSS selector string that would find the `<button>` element with a value attribute set to favorite?
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`button[value='favorite']`
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> Q: 12. Say you have a Beautiful Soup Tag object stored in the variable spam for the element `<div>`Hello world!`</div>`. How could you get a string 'Hello world!' from the Tag object?
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spam.getText()
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> Q: 13. How would you store all the attributes of a Beautiful Soup Tag object in a variable named linkElem?
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linkElem.attrs
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> Q: 14. Running import selenium doesn’t work. How do you properly import the selenium module?
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`from selenium import webdriver`
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> Q: 15. What’s the difference between the find_element_* and find_elements_* methods?
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one vs a list.
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> Q: 16. What methods do Selenium’s WebElement objects have for simulating mouse clicks and keyboard keys?
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`click()` and `send_keys()`
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> Q: 17. You could call send_keys(Keys.ENTER) on the Submit button’s WebElement object, but what is an easier way to submit a form with Selenium?
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`submit()`
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> Q: 18. How can you simulate clicking a browser’s Forward, Back, and Refresh buttons with Selenium?
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`forward()`, `back()`, `refresh()`
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