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sources/academy/webscraping/scraping_basics_python/10_crawling.md

@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ In the next lesson, we'll scrape the product detail pages so that each product v
 
 ### Scrape calling codes of African countries
 
-This is a follow-up to an exercise from the previous lesson, so feel free to reuse code. Scrape links to Wikipedia pages of all African states and territories. Follow the links and for each country extract the calling code, which is in the info table. Print URL and the calling code for all the countries. Start with this URL:
+This is a follow-up to an exercise from the previous lesson, so feel free to reuse your code. Scrape links to Wikipedia pages for all African states and territories. Follow each link and extract the calling code from the info table. Print the URL and the calling code for each country. Start with this URL:
 
 ```text
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Africa
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon +237
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 ```
 
-Hint: Locating cells in tables is sometimes easier if you know how to [go up](https://beautiful-soup-4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#going-up) in the HTML element soup.
+Hint: Locating cells in tables is sometimes easier if you know how to [navigate up](https://beautiful-soup-4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#going-up) in the HTML element soup.
 
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@@ -247,13 +247,13 @@ Hint: Locating cells in tables is sometimes easier if you know how to [go up](ht
 
 ### Scrape authors of F1 news articles
 
-This is a follow-up to an exercise from the previous lesson, so feel free to reuse code. Scrape links to Guardian's latest F1 news. Follow the link for each article and extract both the author's name and the article's title. Print the author's name and the title for all the articles. Start with this URL:
+This is a follow-up to an exercise from the previous lesson, so feel free to reuse your code. Scrape links to the Guardian's latest F1 news articles. For each article, follow the link and extract both the author's name and the article's title. Print the author's name and the title for all the articles. Start with this URL:
 
 ```text
 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/formulaone
 ```
 
-Your program should print something like the following:
+Your program should print something like this:
 
 ```text
 Daniel Harris: Sports quiz of the week: Johan Neeskens, Bond and airborne antics
@@ -266,8 +266,8 @@ PA Media: Lewis Hamilton reveals lifelong battle with depression after school bu
 
 Hints:
 
-- You can use [attribute selectors](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors) to select HTML elements based on values of their attributes.
-- Notice that sometimes a person authors the article, but sometimes it's a contribution by a news agency.
+- You can use [attribute selectors](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors) to select HTML elements based on their attribute values.
+- Sometimes a person authors the article, but other times it's contributed by a news agency.
 
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sources/academy/webscraping/scraping_basics_python/11_scraping_variants.md

@@ -309,10 +309,10 @@ Is this the end? Maybe! In the next lesson, we'll use a scraping framework to bu
 
 ### Build a scraper for watching Python jobs
 
-You're now able to build a scraper, are you? Let's build another one, then! Python's official website features a [job board](https://www.python.org/jobs/). Scrape job postings which match the following criteria:
+You're able to build a scraper now, aren't you? Let's build another one! Python's official website has a [job board](https://www.python.org/jobs/). Scrape the job postings that match the following criteria:
 
-- Tagged as Database
-- Not older than 60 days
+- Tagged as "Database"
+- Posted within the last 60 days
 
 For each job posting found, use [`pp()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/pprint.html#pprint.pp) to print a dictionary containing the following data:
 
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ For each job posting found, use [`pp()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/pprin
 - URL to the job posting
 - Date of posting
 
-Your program should print something like the following:
+Your output should look something like this:
 
 ```text
 {'title': 'Senior Full Stack Developer',
@@ -335,12 +335,12 @@ Your program should print something like the following:
 ...
 ```
 
-In Python's [`datetime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html) module you should find everything you need for manipulating time: `date.today()`, `datetime.fromisoformat()`, `datetime.date()`, `timedelta()`.
+You can find everything you need for working with dates and times in Python's [`datetime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html) module, including `date.today()`, `datetime.fromisoformat()`, `datetime.date()`, and `timedelta()`.
 
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-  After inspecting how the job board works, we can notice that job postings tagged as Database have their own URL. We'll use it as the starting point, as it'll save us from needing to scrape and check the tags.
+  After inspecting the job board, you'll notice that job postings tagged as "Database" have a dedicated URL. We'll use that as our starting point, which saves us from having to scrape and check the tags manually.
 
   ```py
   from pprint import pp
@@ -376,13 +376,13 @@ In Python's [`datetime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html) module
 
 Scrape the [CNN Sports](https://edition.cnn.com/sport) homepage. For each linked article, calculate its length in characters:
 
-- Locate element which holds the main content of the article.
-- Use [`get_text()`](https://beautiful-soup-4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#get-text) to get all its content as a plain text.
-- Use `len()` to calculate the length.
+- Locate the element that holds the main content of the article.
+- Use [`get_text()`](https://beautiful-soup-4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#get-text) to extract all the content as plain text.
+- Use `len()` to calculate the character count.
 
-Skip pages without text, e.g. those which contain only a video. Sort the results and print URL to the shortest article which made it to the homepage.
+Skip pages without text (like those that only have a video). Sort the results and print the URL of the shortest article that made it to the homepage.
 
-At the time of writing this exercise, the shortest article which made it to the CNN Sports homepage is [one about a donation to the Augusta National Golf Club](https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/03/sport/masters-donation-hurricane-helene-relief-spt-intl/). It's just 1,642 characters long.
+At the time of writing, the shortest article on the CNN Sports homepage is [about a donation to the Augusta National Golf Club](https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/03/sport/masters-donation-hurricane-helene-relief-spt-intl/), which is just 1,642 characters long.
 
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