The Ultimate Web Scraping With Python Bootcamp 2024

Learn to extract data from the web with python with just one course, covering selectolax, playwright, scrapy and more

Created by: Andy Bek
Software Consultant

What Will I Learn?

• Understand the fundamentals of web scraping in python from absolute scratch
• Scrape information from static and dynamic websites and extract it to a variety of formats
• Intercept and emulate hidden APIs to identify highly productive alternatives to getting your data
• Master the requests library for working with HTTP
• Parse and extract content from HTML using beautifulsoup, selectolax, and Microsoft Playwright
• Master complex CSS selectors including descendant, child, sibling combinators
• Understand how the web works, including HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Create scrapy crawlers and practice items, itemloaders and custom pipelines
• Integrate scrapy with playwright for highly performant, fine-tuned dynamic website crawling
• Practice processing and extracting data to a variety of formats including csv, json, xml, and SQL

Requirements

• No programming experience needed - I'll teach you everything you need to know
• No paid software required - we'll be using open-sourced python libraries
• A computer with access to the internet
• Prepare to learn real skills you could put to practice right away

Target audience

• Anyone who wants to learn how to collect data from the web programmatically
• Students with or without web scraping experience looking to level up
• Complete beginners with no experience