Scraping Data From the Web

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Ken W. Alger

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Stage1-Video1What is Data Scraping.mp4

02:54

Stage1-Video2Web Page Anatomy.mp4

03:47

Stage1-Video3Beautiful Soup.mp4

06:07

Stage1-Video4More Soup in the Tureen.mp4

06:18

Stage1-Video5Being a Good Citizen.mp4

03:07

Stage2-Video1Everyone Loves Charlotte.mp4

06:57

Stage2-Video2Installing Scrapy.mp4

03:18

Stage2-Video3Crawling Spiders.mp4

05:26

Stage2-Video4The Endless Web.mp4

06:58

Stage3-Video1An Intelligent Spider.mp4

05:40

Stage3-Video2Scraping APIs.mp4

06:40

Stage3-Video3_1Using Scrapers for Site Testing.mp4

05:52

Stage3-Video4Wrapping Up.mp4

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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

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Web Scraping

Ken W. Alger

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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.

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