As you have seen in many examples throughout this book, there are HTML elements denoted by <a> tags that contain href attributes that reference different URLs. These tags, called anchor tags, are how links are generated on a web page. In a web browser, these links would typically have a different font color, often blue, with an underline. As a user in a web browser, if you wanted to follow a link, you would usually just click on it and you would be redirected to the URL. As a web scraper, the clicking action is usually not necessary. Instead, you can send a GET request to the URL in the href attribute itself.
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Vincent Smith has been a software engineer for 10 years, having worked in various fields from health and IT to machine learning, and large-scale web scrapers. He has worked for both large-scale Fortune 500 companies and start-ups alike and has sharpened his skills from the best of both worlds. While obtaining a degree in electrical engineering, he learned the foundations of writing good code through his Java courses. These basics helped spur his career in software development early in his professional career in order to provide support for his team. He fell in love with the process of teaching computers how to behave and set him on the path he still walks today.
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Vincent Smith has been a software engineer for 10 years, having worked in various fields from health and IT to machine learning, and large-scale web scrapers. He has worked for both large-scale Fortune 500 companies and start-ups alike and has sharpened his skills from the best of both worlds. While obtaining a degree in electrical engineering, he learned the foundations of writing good code through his Java courses. These basics helped spur his career in software development early in his professional career in order to provide support for his team. He fell in love with the process of teaching computers how to behave and set him on the path he still walks today.
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