Python Web Scraping

This hands-on course will teach you Python and BS4 for data and web-scraping. Python online data scraping hands-on with Python 3 and Beautiful Soup version 4.9.

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Created by Scientific Programming Team
Last updated Wed, 16-Sep-2020

- INTRODUCTION
  - Introduction Preview
  - What is web data scraping? Preview
- LIVE CLASSROOM
  - Join Live! No classes sheduled yet!
- PYTHON ESSENTIALS
  - Variables
  - Lists Preview
  - Operators
  - Strings
  - Conditions
  - Looping
  - Functions
  - Dictionaries Preview
- PYTHON BEAUTIFUL SOUP!
  - Introduction to Beautiful Soup
  - Hello world! BS4 Preview
  - Print tags Preview
  - Traverse tags
  - Find elements
  - Select elements
  - Append elements
  - Insert elements
  - Repalce and remove elements
- LIVE PROJECTS
  - Project 1: Scientific School weblinks Preview
  - Project 2: IMDB movie data
  - Project 3: Amazon bestsellers
  - Project 4: Free proxy rotating
  - Project 5: Monster Jobs
- DOWNLOAD
  - Course PDF
  - Datasets
- CONCLUSION
  - Conclusion and references
Description

This Python hands-on course will teach you the Python and Beautiful Soup- BS4 for data and web-scraping. Python online data scraping hands-on with Python 3 and Beautiful Soup version 4.9. This course is aimed at complete beginners who have never programmed before, as well as existing programmers who want to increase their career options by learning Python and BS4.
Many of your coding projects may require you to pull a bunch of information from an HTML or XML page. The BS4 for Python package allows you to parse HTML and XML pages with ease and pull all sorts of data off the web. For example, you want to pull all of the tweets from your favorite movie star and run some analysis on their word usage, maybe you want to make a digital collage all the images you’ve posted of your dog to Instagram or you want to pull a list of all of your friend’s favorite books from Goodreads, BS4 em!
Python is the number one language choice for machine learning, data science and artificial intelligence. To get those high paying jobs you need an expert knowledge of Python, and that’s what you will get from this course. By the end of the course you’ll be able to apply in confidence for Python programming for data scraping purposes!

Requirements
- Access to a computer with an internet connection.
Outcome
- Have a fundamental understanding of the Python programming language.
- After this course, you will be able to parse HTML and XML files for all sorts of information.
Instructor Profile

Scientific Programming Team Instructor Teaching 187 students

The Scientific Programming Team helps you to learn the use of scientific programming languages, such as CUDA, Julia, OpenMP, MPI, C++, Matlab, Octave, Bash, Python Sed and AWK including RegEx in processing scientific and real-world data. The teamed is formed by PhD educated instructors in the areas of Computational Sciences.
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- Linux Computing SchoolStudent
  
  Epic course! very user friendly and simple to learn due to byte sized web scapring lessons. Thanks!
  
  Fri, 24-Apr-2020
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