Project Description for Stock Scraper
Explore techniques to scrape stock data from various websites by traversing and parsing HTML DOM trees. Understand how to assign confidence scores to identify relevant stock price tags and implement the next pointer for efficient traversal. Learn to calculate maximum profit from stock price changes. This lesson prepares you to solve dynamic web scraping problems often seen in coding interviews.
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Introduction
Extracting data from a website is known as scraping. The main component of scraping is fetching data from the HTML DOM structure after receiving a response from the website. You can think of web scraping as a spider crawling over every corner of an HTML structure and retrieving information of interest.
The scenario and problems we will discuss in this chapter relate to scraping stock data from websites.
Statement
You are a developer ...