Web Scraping in Python With BeautifulSoup and Selenium

Web Scraping has become one of the hottest topics in the data science world, for getting access to data can make or break you.

This is why Fortune 500 companies like Walmart, CNN, Target, and Amazon use web scraping to get ahead and stay ahead with data.

It’s the original growth tool and one of their best-kept secrets

…And it can easily be yours too.

Welcome to Web Scraping in Python with BeautiuflSoup and Selenium!

The most up to date and project-oriented course out there currently.

In this course, you're going to learn how to scrape data off some of the most well-known websites which include:

• Twitter

• Airbnb

• Nike

• Google

• Indeed

• NFL

• MarketWatch

• Worldometers

• IMDb

• Carpages

  
  

At the end of this course, you will understand the most important components of web scraping and be able to build your own web scrapers to obtain new data from any website, automate any task using web scraping, and more.

Plus, familiarize yourself with some of the most common scraping techniques and sharpen your Python programming skills while you’re at it!

1. First, learn the essentials of web scraping, explore the framework of a website, and get your local environment ready to take on scraping challenges with BeautifulSoup, and Selenium.

2. Next, cover the basics of BeautifulSoup, utilize the requests library and LXML parser, and scale up to deploy a new scraping algorithm to scrape data from any table online, and from multiple pages.

3. Third, set up Selenium to deal with JavaScript-driven webpages, and use the unique functions of Selenium to interact with pages.

4. Combine the concepts of BeautifulSoup and Selenium to create the most effective scrapers to deal with some of the most challenging websites.

5. Finally, learn how to make web scraping fully automatic by running your scraper at a specific time each day.

   
   

What makes this course different from the others, and why you should enroll?

• First, this is the most updated course currently out

• Second, this is the most project-based course you will find, where we will scrape many of the internets most well-known websites

• You will have an in-depth step by step guide on how to become a professional web scraper.

• You will learn how to use Selenium to scrape JavaScript websites and I can assure you, you won't find any tutorials out there that teach you how to really use Selenium like I'll be doing in this course.

• You will learn how to create a fully automated web scraping script that runs periodically without any intervention from you.

• 30 days money-back guarantee by Udemy

  
  

So whether you’re a data scientist, machine learning, or AI engineer who wants to access more data sources; a web developer looking to automate tasks, or a data buff with a general interest in data science and web scraping…

This course delivers an in-depth presentation of web scraping basics, methodologies, and approaches that you can easily apply to your own personal projects, or out there in the real world of business.

Join me now and let’s start scraping the web together. Enroll today.