Modern Web Scraping with Python using Scrapy Splash Selenium
What you'll learn
- Understand the fundamentals of Web Scraping
- Scrape websites using Scrapy
- Understand Xpath & CSS Selectors
- Build a complete Spider from A to Z
- Store the extracted Data in MongoDb & SQLite3
- Scrape JavaScript websites using Splash & Selenium
- Build a CrawlSpider
- Understand the Crawling behavior
- Build a custom Middleware
- Web Scraping best practices
- Avoid getting banned while scraping websites
- Bypass cloudflare
- Scrape APIs
- Scrape infinite scroll websites
- Working with Cookies
- Deploy spiders locally and to the cloud
- Run spiders periodically
- Prevent storing duplicated data
- Build datasets
- Login to websites using Scrapy
- Download images and files using Scrapy
Course content
- Preview06:47
- Preview08:05Setting up Scrapy the Development Environment (Updated)
- 00:26Add VSCODE to path (Mac users)
- 01:21Udemy 101 (Please don't skip*)
- 00:27Asking questions
Requirements
- Basics of Python
- Internet access
Description
Web Scraping nowadays has become one of the hottest topics, there are plenty of paid tools out there in the market that don't show you anything how things are done as you will be always limited to their functionalities as a consumer.
In this course you won't be a consumer anymore, i'll teach you how you can build your own scraping tool ( spider ) using Scrapy.
You will learn:
The fundamentals of Web Scraping
How to build a complete spider
The fundamentals of XPath & CSS Selectors
How to locate content/nodes from the DOM using XPath & CSS
How to store the data in JSON, CSV... and even to an external database(MongoDb & SQLite3)
How to write your own custom Pipeline
Fundamentals of Splash
How to scrape Javascript websites using Scrapy Splash & Selenium
The Crawling behavior
How to build a CrawlSpider
How to avoid getting banned while scraping websites
How to build a custom Middleware
Web Scraping best practices
How to scrape APIs
How to use Request Cookies
How to scrape infinite scroll websites
Host spiders in Heroku for free
Run spiders periodically with a custom script
Prevent storing duplicated data
Deploy Splash to Heroku
Write data to Excel files
Login to websites using Scrapy
Download Files & Images using Scrapy
Use Proxies with Scrapy Spider
Use Crawlera with Scrapy & Splash
Use Proxies with CrawlSpider
What makes this course different from the others, and why you should enroll ?
First, this is the most updated course. You will be using Python 3.7, Scrapy 1.6 and Splash 3.0
You will have an in-depth step by step guide on how to become a professional web scraper.
You will learn how to use Splash & Selenium to scrape JavaScript websites and I can assure you, you won't find any tutorials out there that teaches how to really use Splash like I'll be doing in this course.
You will learn how to host spiders in Heroku as well as Splash(Exclusive).
You will learn how to create a custom script so spiders can run periodically without any intervention from you.
30 days money back guarantee by Udemy
So whether you are a data analyst who wants to add web scraping to his tool set or someone else who wants to learn how to extract unstructured data from unstructured HTML web pages and then store back that data in a structured way to apply some data analysis on it then you are welcome to join this course.
**STUDENTS THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS COURSE **
"I was particularly looking for web scraping using XPATHs and this course is addressing that. It also covers dynamic paging. A proper mix of theory and practical. A must-have for those who wants to do web scraping . GREAT learning experience !!! ". By Hiran Kumar
"90% of what I was searching for!!! Great job!! Clear explanations and great communication with Ahmed". By Raylyson Estanista
"Admed’s Web scraping course is awesome . His approach using Python with scrapy and splash works well with all websites especially those that make heavy use of JavaScript. Ahmed is a gifted educator: expert communicator, passionate, conscientious and accessible to his students. I highly recommend this course and any of Ahmed Rafik’s Udemy courses. ". By Richard Blackmon
"Great course, and a nice introduction to Scrapy (I'm someone with no Python experience whatsoever).". By I S
"Excellent course. Quick and thorough at the same time. Ahmed is incredibly responsive to the students and often replies to questions within minutes! Highest recommendation." By Robert Nolte
"That course is very good and explanation is crystal clear! The instructor is very supportive in case of questions. Highly recommended." By Shubina Ekaterina
"I like the course. Clear explanations and good comunication with Ahmed. All topics is interesting and full of information. I improved my skils in Scrapy. Author update course content by new videos. It's a big bonus) Explained more advance topics I never see in other courses. Thank you, Ahmed. Waiting for new videos)". By Ruslan Romanenko
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to scrape data from any website
- Anyone who wants to learn Scrapy
- Anyone who wants to automate the task of copying contents from websites
- Anyone who wants to learn how to scrape Javascript websites using Scrapy-Splash & Selenium
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Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 2,260 Reviews
- 17,548 Students
- 3 Courses
Who I am?
I’m Ahmed Rafik, I'm a self-taught developer & an online teacher on Udemy. I've helped thousands of people learning web scraping with Python using different tools such as Scrapy, Splash & Selenium.
As a self-taught developer, I found myself jumping between different tutorials and (e-)books trying to understand how things can work out together, I was literally wasting so much time trying to connect the dots rather than learning how to code and over time this has become so overwhelming with lots of things to learn and to connect.
I believe coding should be easy for everyone but this also requires you to choose the right instructor with the right knowledge.
In my courses, I'm gonna teach you the skills you need to start your web scraping career from the get-go with no fluff. I try as much as possible to avoid the boring theoretical explanations unless it's necessary, I always keep my courses up to date and that's what helped me to have the highest-rated and the best selling web scraping courses on Udemy.
I can't wait to see you enrolled in one of my courses, I'll make sure to be there for you on every step you make and answer any questions you have.