Question

A SOC analyst is handed a Python script that retrieves a vendor threat report served as an HTML page. The current script only prints the raw response text. The analyst needs to modify it to programmatically extract the malicious hostnames listed inside an HTML <table> so they can be fed into a blocklist. Which modification is the most appropriate way to reliably parse the tabular data from the HTML body?

Accepted Answer

Use a library such as BeautifulSoup to parse response.text and iterate over the rows and

cells to extract the hostname values

Answer

Pass response.text to json.loads() and index into the resulting dictionary keys to read the hostname values

Answer

Split response.text on commas with str.split(',') and treat each resulting element as a hostname

Answer

Call response.json() and iterate over the returned list of row objects to collect the hostnames