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1 - Intro to Web scraping (front & back end)

 1. Web scraping or web data extraction is data scraping used for__________ data from websites.

  feeding into

  deleting

  extracting

  wiping out

 2. ____________ is a Python library for getting data out of HTML, XML, and other markup languages.

  Excel

  Pythonista

  Beautiful Soup

  Flask

 3. To web scrape, the first step is getting a copy of the ____________ you want to scrape.

  soup library

  python code

  javascript code

  HTML pages

 4. Online price change monitoring and price comparison sites sometimes make use of web scraping.

  TRUE

  FALSE

 5. ______ is a web framework. This means _______ provides you with tools, libraries and technologies that allow you to build a web application.

  Beautiful Soup

  python code

  LXML

  Flask

 6. In flask, to render a template you can use the ____________ method. 
from flask import render_template

@app.route('/hello/')
@app.route('/hello/')
def hello(name=None):
    return render_template('hello.html', name=name)

  render_app

  flask import

  render_html_flask

  render_template()

 7. Flask, according to convention, will always look for templates _____________.

  outside the folder where the main python file is.

  in the virtual environment folder that is held outside the project directory.

   in the templates folder.

  anywhere in the root or parent folder.

 8. When we visit a web page, our web browser makes a request to a web server. This request is called a __________.

  HTTP request, as we are getting something from the internet.

  GET request, since we are getting files from the server.

  POST request, since we are requesting files that are posted.

  HTML request, as we are working with web pages.

 9. HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a language that web pages are created in. HTML is not a programming language, like Python, instead, it is a ___________.

  language that allows animations to come to life.

  language that allows you to web scrape from other websites.

  markup language that tells a browser how to layout content.

  dynamic language that automatically permits webscraping.

 10. Which of the following statements best explains what >> "running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/" means?

  This runs a command prompt server which enables quick access to the internet.

  This produces a website for you which is already hosted on the internet.

  This launches a python program that allows the creation of scripts.

  This launches a very simple built in server, which is good enough for testing and development.


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