18 Questions
What was the reason given by Elon Musk for Tesla not accepting payments in Bitcoin?
Environmental concerns
How did the value of Bitcoin react after Elon Musk's statement about Tesla not accepting payments in Bitcoin?
Hit a two-month low
What did Elon Musk state he was working on with developers of Dogecoin?
Improving system transaction efficiency
How did Dogecoin perform in the digital currency market after Elon Musk's statement about working with its developers?
Rallied by about 20 percent
What was the concern raised by Elon Musk about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions?
Massive increase in fossil fuel use, especially coal
How did the value of Bitcoin react after Elon Musk's statement about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions?
Triggered a downward spiral
What does an API stand for in the context of the text?
Application Programming Interface
What is the purpose of a 'key' that developers receive when interacting with an API?
To act as a password for accessing the API
What is a warning provided about using APIs?
Websites may limit access to data through their APIs
What is Yahoo's YQL language used for?
Standardizing data formats from different websites
What is the main concern when using an API to scrape data?
The potential for weird data formats from different websites
What should developers do before using a website's API?
Check the terms and services of the website’s API
What tool can you use to grab fields inside the HTML of a web page when there's no API available?
Firebug extension for Firefox
Which tool is robust but kind of slow for web scraping?
Beautiful Soup
Which tool provides access to the full HTML document for interaction and editing?
Firebug extension for Firefox
Which tool is super cool but doesn't parse JavaScript?
Mechanize
Which tool is good if you pine for the 1970s or 1992?
lynx
Which tool is recommended for grabbing what you want in a quick-and-dirty shell script, especially for a one-off grab?
curl and wget
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