September 2021
Intermediate to advanced
13h 49m
English
Closed Captioning available in English
Overview
In this 13 hr course, you'll learn how to use Python for web scraping, web crawling, and data mining. You'll master libraries like Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, and Selenium, gain practical skills in extracting and handling data, and complete hands-on projects that reinforce theoretical knowledge with real-world applications.
What I will be able to do after this course
- Understand the fundamentals of both synchronous and asynchronous web requests.
- Learn how to extract structured data from web pages using Beautiful Soup (BS4).
- Master the usage of Scrapy to build web crawlers for data mining tasks.
- Utilize Selenium to automate and control web flows for scraping dynamic content.
- Develop practical projects to solidify concepts and enhance implementation skills.
Course Instructor(s)
The instructor for this course is an expert from AI Sciences with a strong background in Python programming applied to data scraping and mining. They have years of experience teaching these concepts to students of all levels. Their teaching approach includes a mix of theory, live coding, and interactive assignments. The course instructor strives to make learning both engaging and effective for all participants.
Who is it for?
This course is for individuals who are completely new to data scraping and want to learn practical solutions using Python. It's ideal for data scientists and machine learning professionals aiming to enhance their data handling capabilities. Additionally, entrepreneurs and drop shippers who seek to automate workflows and understand web-based data extraction will find this course useful. No prior experience with data scraping or Python is needed to get started.
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