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Python Web Scraping

You're reading from   Python Web Scraping Hands-on data scraping and crawling using PyQT, Selnium, HTML and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786462589
Length 220 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Analyzing a web page

To understand how a web page is structured, we can try examining the source code. In most web browsers, the source code of a web page can be viewed by right-clicking on the page and selecting the View page source option:

For our example website, the data we are interested in is found on the country pages. Take a look at page source (via browser menu or right click browser menu). In the source for the example page for the United Kingdom (http://example.webscraping.com/view/United-Kingdom-239) you will find a table containing the country data (you can use search to find this in the page source code):

<table> 
<tr id="places_national_flag__row"><td class="w2p_fl"><label for="places_national_flag" id="places_national_flag__label">National Flag:</label></td>
<td class="w2p_fw"><img src="/places...
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