From the course: Web Scraping with Python
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How the internet works: A brief summary - Python Tutorial
From the course: Web Scraping with Python
How the internet works: A brief summary
- [Instructor] How the Internet Works. So this is going to be a very brief summary, don't worry. So it's difficult to learn to drive a car if you've never experienced the concept of roads before. Right? Similarly, it's difficult to learn to scrape the web, if you don't have at least a basic understanding of how the internet works. There are lots and lots of things that can go wrong with web scrapers. And these things are influenced by the different layers of the internet that we're going to be talking about. For example, if you made a programming mistake, the web server might say, hey, that request doesn't make any sense to me, or your own client may not know how to direct the request, or maybe your computers ethernet was unplugged. So that's going to look like a very different error, right? Maybe your router can't reach the web server, or maybe the other web server is blocking your IP address. This can be very difficult to…
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