Lesson 6 of 7

Extract data from HTML

Scraping means extracting structured data from an HTML page. For simple patterns, re.findall is enough.

re.findall(r"<h2>(.*?)</h2>", html) returns the list of contents captured by the parentheses — the non-greedy .*? stops at the first closing tag.

import re
names = re.findall(r"<h2>(.*?)</h2>", html)

🎯 Exercise

Extract from HTML the list names of the three product names (contents of the h2 tags) with re.findall, then print names.

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