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Exercise: Get the Posting Dates

Martin Breuss

Web Scraping With Beautiful Soup and Python Martin Breuss 08:00

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Web Scraping With Beautiful Soup and Python (Overview) 02:45

Introduction to Web Scraping 02:53

The Challenge of Variety 01:17

The Challenge of Durability 01:55

APIs: An Alternative to Web Scraping 04:54

A Message From the Future 02:57

Inspect Your Data Source (Introduction) 01:11

Explore the Website 03:48

Decipher the Information in URLs 06:29

Inspect the Site Using Developer Tools 05:43

Inspect Your Data Source (Recap) 02:11

Scrape HTML Content From a Page (Introduction) 02:01

Static Websites 07:07

Hidden Websites 02:38

Dynamic Websites 05:21

Scrape HTML Content From a Page (Recap) 03:07

Exercise: Fetch the Jobs Page 08:00

Parse HTML Code With Beautiful Soup (Introduction) 01:52

Make a Soup 03:03

Find Elements by ID 02:53

Find Elements by HTML Class Name 04:53

Extract Text From HTML Elements 04:37

Exercise: Find Jobs in the Soup 08:00

Extract Attributes From HTML Elements 08:16

Exercise: Get the Posting Dates 08:00

Parse HTML Code With Beautiful Soup (Recap) 06:20

Your Turn: Build a Pipeline 05:33

Exercise: Build the Job Pipeline 11:30

Web Scraping With Beautiful Soup and Python (Quiz) 14:30

Web Scraping With Beautiful Soup and Python (Summary) 08:39

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