Errata

Web Scraping with Python

Errata for Web Scraping with Python, Second Edition

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

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Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
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There are no page numbers in Safari!!

It's chapter 10 in the section titled "Handling Logins and Cookies"

This link gives a 404 error

It appears in several places, starting in paragraph 4

Your form handler for ERRATA will not let me enter the URL directly.
This is amazingly awful in 2020.

so maybe if I put a space in it will go through?

http: //pythonscraping.com/pages/cookies/profile.php

Note from the Author or Editor:
Fixed all links. Looks like the printed/displayed URL text was correct, but they didn't actually link to anything on click.

 BRIAN WILSON  Jun 11, 2020  Aug 28, 2020
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Page 17
Middle of page where variable `html` is defined

The URL should be the one for pythonscraping.com/pages/warandpeace.html instead of www.pythonscraping.com/pages/page1.html.

Anonymous  Feb 23, 2019  Aug 28, 2020
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Page 35
2nd paragraph

In the regular expression ^(/wiki/)((?!:).)*$") the ") at the end is not need and may be due to copying from the code.

 Anonymous  Apr 18, 2020  Aug 28, 2020
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Page 54
def scrapeNYTimes(url) function

NYtimes appear to have changed the class, "story-content" no longer works. Replacing with "css-1cy1v93" (the p-class) does work but not sure if this is the most robust method.

 Anonymous  May 19, 2018  Nov 21, 2018