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Web Scraping with Python

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This course dives into the process, strategies, and best practices of web scraping. Learn how to use the Python framework, Scrapy, to practice key techniques.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • How to learn to stop worrying and love the bot
  • What you should know
1. Basic Web Scraping
  • What is web scraping?
  • How the internet works: A brief summary
  • Hello world with Scrapy
  • Challenge: Scraping all data on a page
  • Solution: Scraping all data on a page
2. Learning to Crawl
  • Crawling a website
  • Recording data
  • Scrapy settings file
  • Structuring your scrapers for extensibility/reusability
  • Challenge: Scraping news sites
  • Solution: Scraping news sites
3. Advanced Techniques
  • Submitting a form
  • Finding and using hidden APIs
  • Sitemaps and robots.txt
  • Challenge: Using CNN's sitemap
  • Solution: Using CNN's sitemap
4. Acting Human
  • Logging in
  • Browser automation with Selenium
  • Interacting with a page
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Ryan Mitchell

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