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Katharine Jarmul
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Katharine Jarmul is a data scientist and Pythonista based in Berlin, Germany. She runs a data science consulting company, Kjamistan, that provides services such as data extraction, acquisition, and modelling for small and large companies. She has been writing Python since 2008 and scraping the web with Python since 2010, and has worked at both small and large start-ups who use web scraping for data analysis and machine learning. When she's not scraping the web, you can follow her thoughts and activities via Twitter (@kjam)
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CSS selectors and your Browser Console

Like the notation we used to extract using cssselect, CSS selectors are patterns used for selecting HTML elements. Here are some examples of common selectors you should know:

Select any tag: * 
Select by tag <a>: a
Select by class of "link": .link
Select by tag <a> with class "link": a.link
Select by tag <a> with ID "home": a#home
Select by child <span> of tag <a>: a > span
Select by descendant <span> of tag <a>: a span
Select by tag <a> with attribute title of "Home": a[title=Home]

The cssselect library implements most CSS3 selectors, and details on unsupported features (primarily browser interactions) are available at https://cssselect.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#supported-selectors.

The CSS3 specification was produced by the W3C and is available for viewing at http://www.w3.org/TR/2011...
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Katharine Jarmul

Katharine Jarmul is a data scientist and Pythonista based in Berlin, Germany. She runs a data science consulting company, Kjamistan, that provides services such as data extraction, acquisition, and modelling for small and large companies. She has been writing Python since 2008 and scraping the web with Python since 2010, and has worked at both small and large start-ups who use web scraping for data analysis and machine learning. When she's not scraping the web, you can follow her thoughts and activities via Twitter (@kjam)
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