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feat: keep exercises as separate files, include them to Markdown
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19 changes: 6 additions & 13 deletions sources/academy/webscraping/scraping_basics_python/04_downloading_html.md
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slug: /scraping-basics-python/downloading-html
---

import CodeBlock from '@theme/CodeBlock';
import Exercises from '../scraping_basics/_exercises.mdx';
import LegoExercise from '!!raw-loader!roa-loader!./exercises/scrape_lego.py';

**In this lesson we'll start building a Python application for watching prices. As a first step, we'll use the HTTPX library to download HTML code of a product listing page.**

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<Exercises />

### Scrape AliExpress
### Scrape LEGO

Download HTML of a product listing page, but this time from a real world e-commerce website. For example this page with AliExpress search results:
Download HTML of a product listing page, but this time from a real world e-commerce website. For example this page with LEGO search results:

```text
https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-darth-vader.html
https://www.lego.com/themes/star-wars
```

<details>
<summary>Solution</summary>

```py
import httpx

url = "https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-darth-vader.html"
response = httpx.get(url)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.text)
```

<CodeBlock language="py">{LegoExercise.code}</CodeBlock>
</details>

### Save downloaded HTML as a file
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions sources/academy/webscraping/scraping_basics_python/exercises/scrape_lego.py
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import httpx

url = "https://www.lego.com/themes/star-wars"
response = httpx.get(url)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.text)
8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions sources/academy/webscraping/scraping_basics_python/exercises/test.bats
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setup() {
DIR=sources/academy/webscraping/scraping_basics_python/exercises
}

@test "outputs the HTML with Star Wars products" {
run uv run --with httpx python "$DIR/scrape_lego.py"
[[ "$output" == *"Millennium Falcon"* ]]
}
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