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Python for Automation

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Overview

Learn how to use Python to extract data from websites and create loops for processing large numbers of pages. Topics covered in this course include HTML/CSS, Python fundamentals, web scraping exercises, data storage and scheduling, and real-life examples of scraping valuable data.

Syllabus

Section 1

Introduction to HTML/CSS (Online)

How a website is served
Anatomy of a web page
HTML tags
IDs
CSS classes

Python Part 1

Integers + Floats
Variables
Strings
Methods + Functions

Section 2

Webscraping Exercise Part 1

Introduction to using packages
Requests packages
Performing a GET request
String manipulation
Debugging a Python script

Python Part 2

Booleans
Conditional Statements
Lists
Indexing into strings + lists
Looping over lists

Section 3

Webscraping Exercises Part 2

Beautiful Soup package
Honing in on data
Common webscraping pitfalls
Using loops in webscraping

Storage and Scheduling

Text files
CSVs
Scheduling a Python Script

Taught by

Art Yudin, Brian McClain, Colin Jaffe, and Kash Sudhakar

Reviews

4.6 rating at Noble Desktop based on 84 ratings

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