Back-end Engineering

4 courses

Mastering Web Scraping with Python and Beautiful Soup

This path transforms you from a curious beginner to a pro in web scraping with Python and Beautiful Soup. Starting with basic techniques, you will progress to advanced concepts such as handling links and processing data efficiently.

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This learning path includes:

4 courses with bite-sized lessons and practices

17 engaging lessons in text and video formats

79 hands-on practices

One-on-one guidance from Cosmo, our AI tutor

Verified skills you'll gain

INTERMEDIATE

Server-Side Programming

DEVELOPING

Performance Optimization and Caching

Tools you'll use

Beautiful Soup

Python

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4 lessons

17 practices

Basic Python and Web Requests

This course introduces you to the foundational skills needed for web scraping with Python. Starting from basic Python programming concepts, you'll learn how to make HTTP requests and handle responses. By the end, you'll be fetching and displaying simple pieces of data from web pages, setting a strong foundation for more complex web scraping tasks.

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5 lessons

22 practices

Introduction to BeautifulSoup for Web Scraping

Dive into the essentials of using BeautifulSoup in Python for web scraping. This course guides you through the process of fetching web pages, parsing HTML content, and extracting relevant information. Through hands-on examples, you'll learn to navigate and manipulate the structure of webpages to retrieve the data you need effectively.

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4 lessons

22 practices

Advanced Web Scraping Techniques

This course takes your web scraping skills to the next level with advanced techniques in Python using BeautifulSoup and Requests. You'll learn to handle pagination, deal with various data types, etc. Each lesson is designed to tackle real-world scraping challenges, equipping you with the knowledge to extract data from a wide array of websites.

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4 lessons

18 practices

Implementing Scalable Web Scraping with Python

This comprehensive course is designed to hone your web scraping skills further, allowing you to implement scalable scripts that navigate through and extract data from multiple pages of a website. This course focuses on practical examples, like scraping quotes from 'http://quotes.toscrape.com', iteratively processing multiple pages and managing data extraction in a structured manner.

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