What Will I Learn?
Tackle new challenges by understand the underlying method/approach to take
Scrape static webpages
Be able to scrape websites that use Javascript
Extract all sorts of data from websites
Know what to look for and how to approach parsing a website
Gather data from all over the internet
Use recursion algorithms to search through website content
Requirements
- Basic Python knowledge
- A Python 3 Environment to Code in
Description
Web scraping is the art of picking out data from a website by looking at the HTML code and identifying patterns that can be used to identify your data. This data can then be gathered and later used for your own analysis.
In this course we will go over the basic of web scraping, learning all about how we can extract data from websites, and all of this is guided along by a work example.
At the end of the course you should be able to go off on your own, and pick out most common websites, and be able to extract all the relevant data you may need just through using Python code.
Who is the target audience?
- Anyone interested in analyzing data
- Anyone who doesn't know how to start gathering data
- Anyone who wants to develop their ability to scrap data
- Anyone interested in starting with web scraping
- Anyone who is interested in expanding their Python knowledge
- Anyone who wants to gather a wide array of data to play with
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About Mustapha
I am online instructor at Udemy. My passions are: Mobile and Web Development, Entrepreneurship and Management. You can read my full biography on My Udemy Page. Feel free to follow me social media to know more about me and the topics and courses I'm teaching.