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- Python
- Intermediate
About this Course
Almost any information you want is available on the Internet. Web scraping is a key tool for data mining that information allowing for web page exploration and collection for a variety of reporting. The tools and techniques used in this course allow for data to be collected that would otherwise not be easily accessible without robotic assistance.
What you'll learn
- An introduction to the Beautiful Soup Python package
- How to scrape a web page with Beautiful Soup
- An introduction to the Scrapy Python package
- How to crawl a website with Scrapy
- Web scraping considerations
Teacher
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Ken W. Alger
Ken has a long history around computers starting with early Commodore PETs and VIC-20s. He enjoys discussing programming and how to get started in the tech industry and is a MongoDB Certified Developer.
He lives in Oregon with his wife and three children. He can be found most places online @kenwalger.