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Web Scraping with Python
7 Courses
12 Hours
Skill IQ
There are times in which you need data but there is no API (application programming interface) to be found. Web scraping is the process of extracting data from web sites via programmatic means. This skill will teach you how to scrape websites for data using Python.
Content in this path
Beginner
Describe the process of scraping data from the web, explain the legal factors, and scrape data from a web page with BeautifulSoup.
Intermediate
Scrape data from a web page extract with specific page elements using BeautifulSoup.
Advanced
Create a spider to collect data across multiple pages and scrape a dynamically-rendered web page.
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What You'll Learn
- Web Scraping (also termed Screen Scraping, Web Data Extraction, Web Harvesting etc.) is a technique employed to extract large amounts of data from websites whereby the data is extracted and saved to a local file in your computer or to a database in table (spreadsheet) format.
Prerequisites
- Data Analytics Literacy
- Python for Data Analysts
Related topics
- Data Mining
- Feature Engineering
- Data Sourcing
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