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Exercise

Turning a webpage into data using BeautifulSoup: getting the hyperlinks

In this exercise, you'll figure out how to extract the URLs of the hyperlinks from the BDFL's webpage. In the process, you'll become close friends with the soup method find_all().

Instructions

100 XP
  • Use the method find_all() to find all hyperlinks in soup, remembering that hyperlinks are defined by the HTML tag <a> but passed to find_all() without angle brackets; store the result in the variable a_tags.
  • The variable a_tags is a results set: your job now is to enumerate over it, using a for loop and to print the actual URLs of the hyperlinks; to do this, for every element link in a_tags, you want to print() link.get('href').