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Web Scraping in Python

Intermediate
4.3+
54 reviews
Updated 12/2024
Learn to retrieve and parse information from the internet using the Python library scrapy.
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Course Description

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.

Prerequisites

Intermediate Python
1

Introduction to HTML

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2

XPaths and Selectors

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3

CSS Locators, Chaining, and Responses

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Spiders

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  • Matheus S.
    30 days

    What makes datacamp so special to me is the fact that not only explains in-depth each of the aspects important to the subject, but also hands you so many well thought exercises along the way so that you're sure to actually learn and take the most out of it.

  • Fatma S.
    about 1 month

    Useful topic. Awaiting more

  • Hammad S.
    about 1 month

    The course is well designed for beginners and teaches well. Teaching CSS may have been better before xpath as most people at least from where have been taught CSS prior to any programming so that people may just be more familiar to it already.

  • Jhon S.
    2 months

    i like so much, thanks

  • André G.
    4 months

    Good basic introduction to Web Scraping

"What makes datacamp so special to me is the fact that not only explains in-depth each of the aspects important to the subject, but also hands you so many well thought exercises along the way so that you're sure to actually learn and take the most out of it."

Matheus S.

"Useful topic. Awaiting more"

Fatma S.

"The course is well designed for beginners and teaches well. Teaching CSS may have been better before xpath as most people at least from where have been taught CSS prior to any programming so that people may just be more familiar to it already."

Hammad S.

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