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Exercise

Turning a webpage into data using BeautifulSoup: getting the text

As promised, in the following exercises, you'll learn the basics of extracting information from HTML soup. In this exercise, you'll figure out how to extract the text from the BDFL's webpage, along with printing the webpage's title.

Instrukcje

100 XP
  • In the sample code, the HTML response object html_doc has already been created: your first task is to Soupify it using the function BeautifulSoup() and to assign the resulting soup to the variable soup.
  • Extract the title from the HTML soup soup using the attribute title and assign the result to guido_title.
  • Print the title of Guido's webpage to the shell using the print() function.
  • Extract the text from the HTML soup soup using the method get_text() and assign to guido_text.
  • Hit submit to print the text from Guido's webpage to the shell.