Practical Web Scraping Course

The fundamentals of web scraping in 30 minutes + GitHub repo for scraping 95% of sites

What you'll learn
Get the most modern methods of scraping data
How to scrape sites with popular frameworks
Advanced techniques like scraping images, pdfs, graphics, etc.
Get more information in less time: save yourself hours of research

Requirements
Basic knowledge of Python
Description
With the vast amount of data available on the internet, it's no wonder that web scraping has become such a popular tool for extracting information. Whether you're looking to gather data for research purposes or collect information from a competitor's website, web scraping can be a valuable skill in your toolkit. And with this practical web scraping course, you'll learn everything you need to know to start extracting data from any website. So if you're ready to start learning web scraping, this is the course for you.

Right now, the "Practical Web Scraping Course" is an ongoing project and therefore it will contain the most recent ways to parse data and would be updated often. You'll also get your answers to the questions you'd have in a short period. Here's the list of all themes that you'd learn within this course eventually

Tracking HTTP requests in practice

Basic scraping with BS4 and requests libraries

BS4 tools in detail

Efficient scraping with Selenium

Visual Intro to Selenium tools

Dealing with authentication and user sessions

Bypassing Captcha

Scraping dynamic websites

Selenium and pagination

Scraping HighCharts.JS

[Items below would be added in the next part of the course]

Data Version Control

Scrapy Introduction

Scrapy integration with DB

Hosting Scrapy spiders locally

Use schedulers to run Scrapy spiders locally

Use Heroku to host your spiders

Scrapy notifications using Spidermon

Ethical scraping tools

Scraping Google search results

Scraping images and pdf’s

Avoid getting banned

Avoid selenium detection

Real-time scraping

Scraping with Trafilatura

With this course you will be able to

- Save time by learning modern methods of data scraping

- Get information about the most up to date scraping tools and techniques

- Avoid being scammed by others selling outdated courses

- Get your money's worth with a complete and comprehensive course

Who this course is for
Data Scientiets, Software Engineers, Open Internet Enthusiasts