The Ultimate Web Scraping With Python Bootcamp 2023
The Ultimate Web Scraping With Python Bootcamp 2023
Learn to extract data from the web with python with just one course, covering selectolax, playwright, scrapy and more
Created by Andy Bek | 17.5 hours on-demand video course
Welcome to The Ultimate Web Scraping With Python Bootcamp 2023 Online Course, the only course you need to go from a complete beginner in python to a very competent web scraper. Web scraping is the process of programmatically extracting data from the web. Scraping agents visit a web resource, extract content from it, and then process the resulting data in order to parse some specific information of interest.
Scraping is the kind of programming skill that offers immediate feedback, and can be used to automate a wide variety of data collection and processing tasks. Over the next 17+ hours, we will methodically cover everything you need to know to write web scraping agents in python. This bootcamp is organized in three parts of increasing difficulty designed to help you progressively build your skill.
What you’ll learn
- Understand the fundamentals of web scraping in python from absolute scratch
- Scrape information from static and dynamic websites and extract it to a variety of formats
- Intercept and emulate hidden APIs to identify highly productive alternatives to getting your data
- Master the requests library for working with HTTP
- Parse and extract content from HTML using beautifulsoup, selectolax, and Microsoft Playwright
- Master complex CSS selectors including descendant, child, sibling combinators
- Understand how the web works, including HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Create scrapy crawlers and practice items, itemloaders and custom pipelines
- Integrate scrapy with playwright for highly performant, fine-tuned dynamic website crawling
- Practice processing and extracting data to a variety of formats including csv, json, xml, and SQL
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