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Web Scraping in Python
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Korshub's take
The Korshub Take
This intermediate course teaches you how to navigate HTML structures, parse web pages, and build web crawlers at scale using Python's scrapy library. It also covers foundational parsing concepts that apply to BeautifulSoup and Selenium.
Who It's For
Data scientists and developers who need to automatically extract and parse structured data from websites across the internet.
Key Takeaways
- HTML Parsing & Navigation: Develop a firm mental model of HTML DOM trees to extract specific web elements accurately.
- Scrapy Spiders: Construct automated scrapy spiders to crawl web pages efficiently at scale.
- Universal Scraping Concepts: Master fundamental web extraction techniques applicable to BeautifulSoup, Selenium, and scrapy.
About this course
The ability to build tools capable of retrieving and parsing information stored across the internet has been and continues to be valuable in many veins of data science. In this course, you will learn to navigate and parse html code, and build tools to crawl websites automatically. Although our scraping will be conducted using the versatile Python library scrapy, many of the techniques you learn in this course can be applied to other popular Python libraries as well, including BeautifulSoup and Selenium. Upon the completion of this course, you will have a strong mental model of html structure, will be able to build tools to parse html code and access desired information, and create a simple scrapy spiders to crawl the web at scale.
Price
Free
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