Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Selecting Tables Data

The video tutorial explains how to work with HTML tables using Scrapy and CSS selectors. It covers the structure of HTML tables, including table, TR, and TD elements. The tutorial demonstrates how to select table elements using Scrapy, iterate over table rows with loops, and extract data such as headings and table data. The process involves using CSS selectors to target specific elements and efficiently retrieve data from a web page.

What elements are found inside the table body in an HTML table?

• Table footers

• Table rows

• Table headers

• Table captions

Which CSS selector is used to select the entire table in Scrapy?

• Table attribute

• Table tag name

• Table ID

• Table class

Why is it acceptable to use the table tag name for selection in this context?

• There are multiple tables on the website

• The table has a specific class

• There is only one table on the website

• The table has a unique ID

What is the purpose of using a for loop when working with table rows?

• To add new rows

• To delete rows

• To iterate over each row

• To style the table

How do you extract data from each row in an HTML table?

• By using JavaScript functions

• By using CSS selectors for headings and data

• By using the table class

• By using the table ID