Web Scraping in Python

About This Course

This course equips you with the skills to create tools that can retrieve and interpret information from the internet, a critical asset in various fields of data science. You will learn how to navigate and parse HTML code, and develop automated tools for web crawling. While the course primarily focuses on using the powerful Python library Scrapy, many techniques are applicable to other widely-used Python libraries such as BeautifulSoup and Selenium. By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of HTML structure, be able to build tools for parsing HTML code, and create simple Scrapy spiders for large-scale web crawling.