how do i extract birthdates from top 100 rugby players in python

To extract birthdates from the top 100 rugby players, we will need to perform web scraping on a website that contains this information. We can use the beautifulsoup4 library in Python to extract the birthdate information from the website.

First, we need to install the beautifulsoup4 library using pip:

main.py
!pip install beautifulsoup4
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Then, we can use the library to extract the birthdate information from the website. Here is an example code snippet that extracts the birthdate of the top 100 rugby players:

main.py
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from datetime import datetime

# send a request to the website and get the HTML content
url = "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/top-10s/best-rugby-players-in-the-world/"
response = requests.get(url)

# create a BeautifulSoup object to parse the HTML content
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "html.parser")

# find the table that contains the top 100 rugby players
table = soup.find("table")

# loop through each row in the table and extract the birthdate
for row in table.find_all("tr")[1:]:
    cells = row.find_all("td")
    name = cells[0].get_text()
    birthdate_str = cells[2].get_text()
    birthdate = datetime.strptime(birthdate_str, "%d %B %Y")
    print(name, birthdate)
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This code snippet sends a request to the website that contains the top 100 rugby players and gets the HTML content. Then, it creates a BeautifulSoup object to parse the HTML content and finds the table that contains the top 100 rugby players. Finally, it loops through each row in the table and extracts the birthdate of each player using the datetime.strptime function to convert the birthdate string to a datetime object.