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Exploring Web Scraping with Python

The course introduces data professionals and Python developers to Web Scraping with Python. Much data is “trapped” in web pages and this course starts you down the path on how to liberate the data for your data science projects.

     
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Exploring Web Scraping with Python

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About Exploring Web Scraping with Python

The web is a giant database and when there’s no API, you can still retrieve the data through web scraping. In this course, Exploring Web Scraping with Python, you will learn foundational knowledge of web scraping and how to use Python’s rich set of scraping capabilities. First, you will learn how to download and extract data with Requests and Beautiful Soup. Next, you will discover how to build a spider in about 20 lines of code with Scrapy. Finally, you will explore how to use a robotic browser to solve advanced web scraping challenges. When you are finished with this course, you will know “SQL for web scraping,” and have the skills and knowledge of content selectors and Python needed to start your own website scraping projects.

What You Will Learn?

  • Course Overview : 1min.
  • Why Scrape the Web? : 7mins.
  • The Web Scraping Process : 9mins.
  • CSS Selectors and XPath : 18mins.
  • Is Web Scraping Legal? Is it Ethical? : 9mins.
  • Web Scraping Basics with Python : 14mins.
  • Building a Web Spider with Scrapy : 15mins.
  • Advanced Web Scraping with Selenium and Requests-html : 13mins.
  • Course Summary : 3mins.