Learn How To Extract Web Data with Python and Beautiful Soup

Learn How To Extract Web Data with Python and Beautiful Soup, available at $34.99, has an average rating of 4.3, with 16 lectures, based on 24 reviews, and has 3520 subscribers.

You will learn about Setup Python Development Environment Install Beautiful Soup Build Data Extraction Script Prototype data extraction script Extract data This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginners to web data extraction or Beginner Data Analyst or Beginners to Data Science It is particularly useful for Beginners to web data extraction or Beginner Data Analyst or Beginners to Data Science.

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Title: Learn How To Extract Web Data with Python and Beautiful Soup

Price: $34.99

Average Rating: 4.3

Number of Lectures: 16

Number of Published Lectures: 16

Number of Curriculum Items: 16

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 16

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Setup Python Development Environment

Install Beautiful Soup

Build Data Extraction Script

Prototype data extraction script

Extract data

Who Should Attend

Beginners to web data extraction

Beginner Data Analyst

Beginners to Data Science

Target Audiences

Beginners to web data extraction

Beginner Data Analyst

Beginners to Data Science

Python is a general-purpose programming language that is becoming ever more popular for data science. Companies worldwide are using Python to harvest insights from their data and gain a competitive edge.

The term used for extracting data from the web or internet is referred to as web scraping. You will Learn what web scraping is and how it can be achieved with the help of Python’s beautiful soup library.

Web scraping is an important technique that is widely used as the first step in many workflows in data mining, information retrieval, and text-based machine learning.

In this course, Extracting Data from HTML with BeautifulSoup* you will gain the ability to build robust, maintainable web scraping solutions using the Beautiful Soup library in Python.

Beautiful Soup is a pure Python library for extracting structured data from a website. It allows you to parse data from HTML and XML files. It acts as a helper module and interacts with HTML in a similar and better way as to how you would interact with a web page using other available developer tool.

In the time when the internet is rich with so much data, and apparently, data has become the new oil, web scraping has become even more important and practical to use in various applications. Web scraping deals with extracting or scraping the information from the website. Web scraping is also sometimes referred to as web harvesting or web data extraction. Copying text from a website and pasting it to your local system is also web scraping. However, it is a manual task. Generally, web scraping deals with extracting data automatically with the help of web crawlers. Web crawlers are scripts that connect to the world wide web using the HTTP protocol and allows you to fetch data in an automated manner.

Whether you are a data scientist, engineer, or anybody who analyzes vast amounts of datasets, the ability to scrape data from the web is a useful skill to have. Let’s say you find data from the web, and there is no direct way to download it, web scraping using Python is a skill you can use to extract the data into a useful form that can then be imported and used in various ways.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Environment Setup

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Installing Python

Lecture 3: Updating Pip

Lecture 4: Installing Visual Studio Code

Lecture 5: Installing a virtual environment tool

Lecture 6: Create and activate a virtual environment

Lecture 7: Installing Beautiful Soup

Chapter 2: Extracting Data From The Web

Lecture 1: The Target Website

Lecture 2: Building web scraping script: Part 1

Lecture 3: Building web scraping script: Part 2

Lecture 4: Prototyping the script: Part 1

Lecture 5: Prototyping the script: Part 2

Lecture 6: Prototyping the script: Part 3

Lecture 7: Prototyping the script: Part 4

Lecture 8: Prototyping the script: Part 5

Lecture 9: Extracting the data

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