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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion docs/scenarios/scrape.rst
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Expand Up @@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ parse it using the ``html`` module and save the results in ``tree``:
.. code-block:: python

page = requests.get('http://econpy.pythonanywhere.com/ex/001.html')
tree = html.fromstring(page.text)
tree = html.fromstring(page.content)

(We need to use ``page.content`` rather than ``page.text`` because
``html.fromstring`` implicitly expects ``bytes`` as input.)

``tree`` now contains the whole HTML file in a nice tree structure which
we can go over two different ways: XPath and CSSSelect. In this example, we
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