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Webscraping from Local HTML File

  • Some computation servers block users from pulling a URL directly, so we have to download the HTML page first. Then we can do webscraping locally to retrieve data from the HTML file.
  • Downloading static webpages allows us to retrieve the data even when the webpage is removed in the future. This is feasible for developing a "stand still in time" analysis.
  • If we want to auto-update a web dashboard, we will benefit from using external APIs, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics API (link). In this case, we will have to request access for these APIs.