Simple Web Scrape¶

In Java, reading text from a web page isn’t much more difficult than reading from a text file! Download the following code and get it to compile.

Files Needed¶

import requests


SECRET_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MrGallo/pbd-python/master/web-files/secret-data.txt"
request = requests.get(SECRET_URL)
secrets = request.text

print(secrets)

What You Should See¶

This file contains secret information...

What You Should Do on Your Own¶

Assignments turned in without these things will receive half credit or less.

  1. Change the URL to read text from a different web location.

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Adapted for Python from Graham Mitchell’s Programming By Doing