I see where this is going
. So we're dealing with some HTML code and we wanna get the info out of it
. Honestly, it's a bit tricky because HTML isn't really designed to store data in a way that's easy for machines to read
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Using an HTML parser library like BeautifulSoup or Jsoup is probably the best bet here
. They're both pretty powerful tools that can help you navigate and extract specific info from an HTML document. But, yeah, it's not exactly rocket science... I mean, you gotta know what you're doing with these libraries to get good results
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One thing that might make this process easier is if we knew more about the kind of data we're looking for
. Like, are we looking for specific text or numbers? Are there any patterns or structures in the HTML that we can exploit? Knowing more about what we're trying to pull out of the code could make all the difference
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I tried using BeautifulSoup once and it was a total mess, had to read like 10 different tutorials just to get it to work. And then I found out about Selenium, which is kinda okay, but still feels like a lot of overhead for what you need. Just give me a simple way to extract some data without having to learn a whole new language 