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Web Scraping and Analyzing Economic News

Level: Medium

Description: Recently you became more interested in finance, and since you want to learn more about web scraping for work, you decided to unite both interests. Using the KNIME Web Interaction extension, can you navigate to the Economic News section on Yahoo Finance, extract the headers of only the most recent topics that pop up on the webpage, and then make sense of the results visually? Remember to filter out any ads or unrelated banners/headers/content. Hint: Find class tags in the news' XML that are unique to the content you are scraping.

Edgehttps://finance.yahoo.com/topic/economic-news/Headinglink*https://finance.yahoo.com/news/*linkimage& contentget imageEmbed the link in the titleLimited to a maximum of 300 characters of descriptionWeb InteractionStart (Labs) Navigator (Labs) Content Retriever(Labs) Web InteractionEnd (Labs) XPath Row Filter Webpage Retriever XPath GET Request Binary Objectsto PNGs Tile View(JavaScript) String Manipulation Column Filter Column Resorter Column Expressions Edgehttps://finance.yahoo.com/topic/economic-news/Headinglink*https://finance.yahoo.com/news/*linkimage& contentget imageEmbed the link in the titleLimited to a maximum of 300 characters of descriptionWeb InteractionStart (Labs) Navigator (Labs) Content Retriever(Labs) Web InteractionEnd (Labs) XPath Row Filter Webpage Retriever XPath GET Request Binary Objectsto PNGs Tile View(JavaScript) String Manipulation Column Filter Column Resorter Column Expressions

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