HTML Tags and Attributes

Web Scraping in Python

Thomas Laetsch

Data Scientist, NYU

Do we have to?

• Information within HTML tags can be valuable
• Extract link URLs
• Easier way to select elements

Tag, you're it!

• We've seen tag names such as html, div, and p.
• The attribute name is followed by = followed by information assigned to that attribute, usually quoted text.

Let's "div"vy up the tag

• id attribute should be unique
• class attribute doesn't need to be unique

"a" be linkin'

• a tags are for hyperlinks
• href attribute tells what link to go to

Tag Traction

Et Tu, Attributes?

Web Scraping in Python