Web Scraping and API Fundamentals in Python

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Welcome to Web Scraping and API Fundamentals in Python!

The definitive course on data collection!

Web Scraping is a technique for obtaining information from web pages or other sources of data, such as APIs , through the use of intelligent automated programs. Web Scraping allows us to gather data from potentially hundreds or thousands of pages with a few lines of code.

 

What you’ll learn
  • Learn the fundamentals of Web Scraping
  • Implement APIs into your applications
  • Master working with Beautiful Soup
  • Start using requests-html
  • Create functioning scrapers
  • Scrap JavaScript
  • Familiarize yourself with HTML
  • Get the hang of CSS Selectors
  • Make HTTP requests
  • Understand website cookies
  • Explore scraping content locked behind a log-in system
Course content
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10 sections • 62 lectures • Total duration 3 hours 51 minutes

Introduction to the course
Setting up the environment
Working with APIs
HTML overview
Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup
Practical project: Scraping Rotten Tomatoes
Scraping HTML tables
Practical projects
Common roadblocks when scraping
The requests-html package