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Exercise

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Like the previous exercise, the code here is long since you are working with an entire web-crawling spider! But again, don't let the amount of code intimidate you, you have a handle on how spiders work now, and you are perfectly capable to complete the easy task for you here!

As in the previous exercise, we have created a function previewCourses which lets you preview the output of the spider, but you can always just explore the dictionary dc_dict too after you run the code.

In this exercise, you are asked to create a CSS Locator string direct to the text of the course description. All you need to know is that from the course page, the course description text is within a paragraph p element which belongs to the class course__description (two underlines).

Instructions

100 XP
  • Fill in the one blank below in the parse_pages method with a CSS Locator string which directs to the text within the paragraph p element which belongs to the class course__description.

NOTE: If you hit Run Code, you must Reset to Sample Code to successfully use Run Code again!!