Stone River eLearning – Web Scraping In Python: Master The Fundamentals(Max)

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Web scraping is the art of picking out data from a website by looking at the HTML code and identifying patterns that can be used to identify your data. This data can then be gathered and later used for your own analysis.

In this course we will go over the basic of web scraping, learning all about how we can extract data from websites, and all of this is guided along by a work example.

At the end of the course you should be able to go off on your own, and pick out most common

Course Curriculum

Prerequisite knowledge
StartIntroduction (3:20)
PreviewAPIs (2:00)
StartPrerequisite Libraries (3:00)
StartIntroduction to The Modulus Operation (5:01)
StartIntroduction to Simple Error Handling (4:25)
StartIntroduction to Pandas (6:41)
Static Data Extraction/Web Scraping
StartResponse Status Codes From a HTTP Request (7:18)
StartReading The Response Text From Our Request (11:40)
StartFirst Approach at Parsing The Data (13:18)
PreviewUnderstanding The Exception Cases (6:39)
StartParsing Out All Data for One Company (9:33)
StartDetermining Where We Can Get More Ticker Symbols (15:46)
StartExtracting Company Ticker Symbols Part 1 (16:32)
StartExtracting Company Ticker Symbols Part 2 (10:41)
StartGetting Data For All Parsed Companies (8:11)
StartFinal Data For All Parsed Companies (5:13)
StartFinal Result (1:40)
Scraping Websites That Load Data With Javascript
StartPrerequisite Libraries (5:02)
PreviewShort review: Recursive Functions (7:43)
StartGetting started with Selenium (8:47)
StartView The Page Source (9:14)
StartWebsite Elements and XPath (8:11)
StartNavigating Deeper Into The Page Source (14:37)
StartIdentifying The Path To Our Data (19:28)
StartUsing The XPath To Our Data (9:50)
PreviewParsing Out Our Data (8:42)
StartGetting Our Final Data (14:56)
StartFinal Results (4:13)
APIs overview
StartIntroduction To APIs (10:33)