01-20-2025, 09:52 AM
Build 5 Python Web Scraping Projects: Beginner To Advanced
Published 10/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 2.94 GB | Duration: 4h 19m
Build 5 Web Scraping Projects with Python: Beginner to Advanced , BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium, API integration
What you'll learn
Learn how to scrape data from websites using Python libraries like BeautifulSoup and Playwright for static and dynamic content
How to log in to a website using Playwright and scrape its content.
Gain hands-on experience by creating five real-world web scraping projects, including price trackers, job scrapers, and data aggregators.
Learn how to host scrapers and set up cron jobs to run automatically in the cloud.
Requirements
You should have basic Python knowledge, including using loops, conditional statements, and operators. Familiarity with data structures like lists, dictionaries, sets, and tuples is also required.
Description
In this course, "Build 5 Web Scraping Projects with Python: From Beginner to Advanced," you'll gain comprehensive knowledge on how to efficiently extract data from websites using Python. Whether you're just starting out or already have some experience with web scraping, this course is designed to enhance your skills through practical, hands-on projects. We will use powerful libraries like BeautifulSoup for parsing HTML, Requests for handling HTTP requests, and Playwright for interacting with dynamic, JavaScript-rendered content.Throughout the course, you'll discover how to build custom web scraping bots from scratch, learning how to handle everything from scraping static pages to more complex tasks like logging into websites to extract protected data. Additionally, you'll explore how to automate your scraping tasks by scheduling them using cron jobs, allowing you to run your scripts at regular intervals on the cloud for free.Each project is designed to simulate real-world scenarios, helping you apply your new skills immediately. By the end of the course, you'll be proficient in scraping both static and dynamic content, automating data extraction, and deploying your projects to the cloud. Whether you want to scrape product data, job listings, or social media information, this course will equip you with the tools and knowledge you need to succeed.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction to the Course
Lecture 1 Introduction to Web Scraping
Lecture 2 Overview of Web Scraping
Lecture 3 Applications of Web Scraping
Lecture 4 Tools for Web Scraping
Section 2: Introduction to BeautifulSoup and Requests
Lecture 5 Understanding Web Structures
Lecture 6 Introduction to BeautifulSoup and Requests
Lecture 7 Locating Data using Tags and Classes
Lecture 8 Extracting data from HTML using BeautifulSoup
Lecture 9 Using find_all() to Scrape Multiple Elements from a Webpage
Lecture 10 Using BeautifulSoup's .get() to extract URLs from a Webpage
Lecture 11 Using find_all() to Scrape Multiple URLs from Webpage
Lecture 12 Extracting Images Using Image Source
Lecture 13 Project 1- Basic Web Scraper (Books to Scrape)
Section 3: Scraping Multiple Pages (Pagination)
Lecture 14 Understanding Pagination Patterns
Lecture 15 Handling Pages with Known Total Page Count
Lecture 16 Handling Pages with Unknown Total Page Count
Lecture 17 Looping Through Multiple Pages to Gather Data
Lecture 18 Project 2: Scraping Product Pages - Part 1
Lecture 19 Project 2: Scraping Product Pages - Part 2
Section 4: Data Storage and Exporting
Lecture 20 Saving data to CSV and Excel files
Section 5: Introduction to Dynamic Content
Lecture 21 Understanding Dynamically Loaded Content
Lecture 22 Differences between Static and Dynamic Pages
Lecture 23 Introduction to Playwright
Lecture 24 Extracting Data from Dynamic Websites Using Playwright
Section 6: Advanced Web Scraping Techniques (Playwright)
Lecture 25 How to Scroll using Playwright
Lecture 26 How to login to a website Using Playwright
Lecture 27 How to login to a website Using Playwright Codegen
Lecture 28 How Download Files Using Playwright
Lecture 29 How to Upload files to a Website Using Playwright
Lecture 30 Project 3: Login and Data Extraction (Social Media Scraper-Twitter)
Section 7: Introduction to APIs
Lecture 31 What are APIs and how to use them for data extraction
Lecture 32 Difference between web scraping and API usage
Lecture 33 Parsing JSON responses from APIs
Lecture 34 How to Explore hidden APIs
Lecture 35 Project 4: Extracting Data from a hidden API
Section 8: Project 5: Scheduled E-commerce Data Scraper Using Cron Job
Lecture 36 Overview of Project
Lecture 37 Creating the basic Offline Scraper
Lecture 38 Configuring Google Sheets API for integration
Lecture 39 Integration with Google Sheets Locally
Lecture 40 Deploying and Scheduling to the Cloud with GitHub Actions
This course is perfect for Python enthusiasts eager to dive into web scraping and build real-world bots. Whether you're new to web scraping and looking to expand your skill set or an experienced developer aiming to enhance your scraping capabilities, this course offers the practical knowledge and hands-on experience needed to master the field. It's ideal for freelancers, software testers, and anyone interested in performing web scraping tasks efficiently.