Web scraping and access API have been being used for various purposes, both commercial and personal. Web scraping enables businesses to swiftly provide updates to their customers, such as price increases, discounts, and a new product launch. Moreover, in many data science or data analysis tasks, we first need to gather data from websites or generally the Internet. Thus, it is essential to treat the Internet as a data source. Web scraping is the process of gathering and parsing HTML code from web pages to extract the desired data. Web scraping can serve an unlimited number of purposes such as e-commerce, marketing, social media, data analysis.
TechClass Access Web Data with Python online course gets you acquainted with scraping, parsing, and reading HTML data as well as accessing data using web APIs, which both together are called accessing web data. Besides, you will get familiar with some basic concepts such as HTML, HTTP, XML as your very first step in the web scraping process. By the end of this course, you will gain hands-on experience creating a web scraper engine using various robust Python libraries such as Beatifulsoup, Selenium, Scrapy, and urllib. This course will prepare you to enter the fantastic world of web scraper job opportunities in the industry.
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Table of contents
Chapter 1: Beginning with This Course
- 1.1. Our Approach in This Course
- 1.2. About TechClass AI Department
- 1.3. Your Expectations, Goals, and Knowledge
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