Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “Here, we have expressed our interest in only finding the information from the content attribute with the <meta> tag, which has the name attribute with the keywords and description values, respectively.”

A block of code is set as follows:

source.find(‘a:contains(“Web”)’) # [<a.menuitm>, <a>, <a>, <a>, <a>]
source.find(‘a:contains(“Web”):last’).text()
# ‘Web Scraper’
source.find(‘a:contains(“Web”):last’).attr(‘href’) # ‘#’

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

(secondEd) C:\HOWScraping2E> pip install jupyterlab

Outputs and comments inside blocks of code look as follows:

# [<a.menuitm>, <a>, <a>, <a>, <a>]
# ‘Web Scraper’
# ‘#’

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “In addition, we will create separate files for author and quotes.”

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