Web Scraping in Python With BeautifulSoup and Selenium
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Web Scraping has become one of the hottest topics in the data science world, for getting access to data can make or break you.
This is why Fortune 500 companies like Walmart, CNN, Target, and Amazon use web scraping to get ahead and stay ahead with data.
What you’ll learn
- Understanding the fundamentals of Web Scraping
- Build your own web scraping projects
- Learn core components of two of the most powerful scraping libraries: BeautifulSoup and Selenium
- How to click on a button, send text to an input box, and self-scroll using Selenium
- Scraping data off of single page, multiple page, and infinite scrolling websites
- 5 projects each with it’s own unique challenge
- Automate Python Scripts
- Understand HTML and Xpath selectors
Course content
1212 sections • 76 lectures • Total duration 9 h 28 min
Introduction
How Websites Are Displayed
Basics of BeautifulSoup
Searching and Extracting From the HTML
Project #1 - Scraping a Table
Project #2 - Dealing with Multiple Pages
JavaScript Driven Webpages
Selenium
Project #3 - Infinite Scrolling
Project #4 - Twitter
Project #5 - Automating Python Scripts
Bonus Lecture