Scraping XML Data using Beautiful Soup.ipynb

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    "## Import Modules"
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    "from bs4 import BeautifulSoup\n",
    "import requests"
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    "## Get Data from URL"
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    "url = \"https://www.w3schools.com/xml/note.xml\""
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    "# get the data\n",
    "xml = requests.get(url)"
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     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "b'<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\\n<note>\\n  <to>Tove</to>\\n  <from>Jani</from>\\n  <heading>Reminder</heading>\\n  <body>Don\\'t forget me this weekend!</body>\\n</note>'"
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    "xml.content"
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      "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n",
      "<note>\n",
      "<to>Tove</to>\n",
      "<from>Jani</from>\n",
      "<heading>Reminder</heading>\n",
      "<body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>\n",
      "</note>\n"
     ]
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    "# parse the data\n",
    "soup = BeautifulSoup(xml.content, 'xml')\n",
    "print(soup)"
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     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "<heading>Reminder</heading>"
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    "xml_tag = soup.find('heading')\n",
    "xml_tag"
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   "cell_type": "code",
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     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'Reminder'"
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     "execution_count": 8,
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     "output_type": "execute_result"
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   ],
   "source": [
    "xml_tag.text"
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     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "<note>\n",
       "<to>Tove</to>\n",
       "<from>Jani</from>\n",
       "<heading>Reminder</heading>\n",
       "<body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>\n",
       "</note>"
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     "execution_count": 9,
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    "xml_tag = soup.find('note')\n",
    "xml_tag"
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   "execution_count": 10,
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      "\n",
      "Tove\n",
      "Jani\n",
      "Reminder\n",
      "Don't forget me this weekend!\n",
      "\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "print(xml_tag.text)"
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
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