What you’ll learn:
Fundamentals of Web Scraping and Automation
Understand Xpath & CSS Selectors
Working with Spreadsheets and CSV files
Automating Websites using Selenium
Scraping and Crawling Websites using BeautifulSoup
Multi-Threading Web Scraping Operations
Web Scraping Best Practices
Requirements:
Beginner Python Development Experience
Description:
Do you want to learn Web Scraping and Automation using Python and tools such as Selenium, BeautifulSoup, and Chromium? If so, Then this is the course for you!
WHAT DOES THIS COURSE FEATURE?
In this course, we’ll use the best tools and techniques available on the Internet to create powerful and efficient web scrapers and bots. Our focus will be towards developing 3 fully-featured python scripts that will solve the following issues respectively.
Scraping Data From An API
Scraping Data From HTML Web Pages
Automating Websites
By the end of this course, you’ll have mastered the skills required to effectively use Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Chromium and Python to build powerful Web Scrapers and Bots.
WHAT TOPICS WILL BE COVERED?
Working with Python Requests Module
Understanding Request Headers
Exporting Data to XLS Files
Sending Emails using Python
Working with API’s
Reading in Data From A CSV File.
The fundamentals of Beautiful Soup and LXML
Exporting Data to CSV Files.
Utilizing Multi-Threading to Speed Up Scraping
Navigating HTML Documents
