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Webpages and HTML

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- [Instructor] Hello and welcome to the second project section of the course. For this project, we're going to be building a web scraper and I like to define a web scraper as a way to create an API for a website that doesn't have an API. Right, in our previous project, we used a weather API to get weather data and it told us this is exactly how the data is going to come to you in this particular format, it was using JSON, right, and it said it's going to be broken down this way to get the temperature and this and that. So that's great for websites that have APIs. But what about a website that doesn't have an API? What if you want to get some information from it in a systematic way so that like an API, you can show it in any way that you'd like? So for example, I have this website here, pixelford.com. This is a example website from LinkedIn Learning. They've created this, this isn't a real photographer's page although there are some nice photos on here, but basically this is just an…

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