Udemy – Modern Web Scraping Fundamentals with Python 2020-11

Published on: 2024-07-14 23:04:36

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Descriptions

Modern Web Scraping Fundamentals with Python, Getting access to the data you need can make or break you. This is why Fortune 500 companies like Walmart, CNN, Target, and HSBC use web scraping to get ahead and stay ahead with data. It’s the original growth tool and one of their best-kept secrets. From data spoofing to legalities, crawling libraries, maintenance, monitoring, more, building a safe and effective web scraper is risky business but it’s a skill every data scientist needs in their toolkit. I’m an AI & Cybersecurity Engineer and a SuperDataScience instructor. I’m here to guide you step-by-step in building custom web scrapers in Python using Selenium, Scrapy and BeautifulSoup. At the end of this course, you will understand the most important components of web scraping and be able to build your own web scrapers to obtain new data, optimize internal processes and more.
Plus, familiarize yourself with some of the most common scraping techniques and sharpen your Python programming skills while you’re at it! We’l bel coding in Python, and using the automated testing suite Selenium, the Python framework Scrapy, and library BeautifulSoup to build web scrapers that can be customized to your specific needs.

What you’ll learn

Understand the most important components for web scraping
Build their own web scraping projects
Learn core components of two of the most powerful scraping libraries: Scrapy and BeautifulSoup
Build multiple hands-on projects

Who this course is for

Anyone interested in harnessing the power of data, web scraping/crawling, and data mining.
Data Scientists who want to take their skills to the next level
ML/AI engineers that want to put together new sources of information or datasets
Web developers looking to obtain new information or automate tasks
Any one interested in programming or computer science
Software engineers or programmers looking to expand their skill set