Key Terms

  • API
    • Application Program Interface - A contract between applications that defines the patterns of interaction between two application components.
  • BeautifulSoup
    • A Python library for parsing HTML documents and extracting data from HTML documents that compensates for most of the imperfections in the HTML that browsers generally ignore. You can download the BeautifulSoup code from www.crummy.com.
  • ElementTree
    • A built-in Python library used to parse XML data.
  • JSON
    • JavaScript Object Notation. A format that allows for the markup of structured data based on the syntax of JavaScript Objects.
  • port
    • A number that generally indicates which application you are contacting when you make a socket connection to a server. As an example, web traffic usually uses port 80 while email traffic uses port 25.
  • scrape
    • When a program pretends to be a web browser and retrieves a web page, then looks at the web page content. Often programs are following the links in one page to find the next page so they can traverse a network of pages or a social network.
  • SOA
    • Service-Oriented Architecture. When an application is made of components connected across a network.
  • socket
    • A network connection between two applications where the applications can send and receive data in either direction.
  • spider
    • The act of a web search engine retrieving a page and then all the pages linked from a page and so on until they have nearly all of the pages on the Internet which they use to build their search index.
  • XML
    • eXtensible Markup Language. A format that allows for the markup of structured data.

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