Web scraping - zero to pro! (scrape & display on a website)
What you'll learn
- How to webscrape using Python, Beautiful Soup, lxml (backend) and Flask and Bootstrap/HTML (front end)
- How to re-create the covid-tracker Avi Shiffman created (and was offered $8 million for!)
- Scraping additional sites and displaying this data on a beautiful website
- In just four amazing lessons, you'll go from zero to pro - Full stack webscraping!
Requirements
- Basic python is recommended but not required. We take it slow and assume nothing!
Description
In this amazing four part series you will go from absolute zero to setting up a flask server to run websites from (we'll be using Bootstrap to display your beautiful web scrapings on!) and set up the back end with Flask, Beautiful Soup, lXML and requests to ready to start coding in Python for some web scraping. Most tutorials cover the back end but not displaying scraped data on a website. This is full stack, completely awesome and in four lessons you WILL want to share this series! During the series you learn the basics by scraping simple quote sites, Wikipedia and even re-create the essence of the $8 million covid-tracking website that was set up by seventeen year old Avi Shiffman. Lots to learn and everything is done in a truly engaging, student and beginner-friendly way. This is one course you won't regret enrolling in! All the best and enjoy! Based on some feedback, I should note this is not an advanced, super complex series but something that will give you a perfectly solid foundational understanding and structure for the future. Do check out the advanced web scraping (follow-on from this series) which takes you through scraping dynamic data, displaying it on a chart and more...
Who this course is for:
- Beginner Python developers, advanced developers looking to learn web scraping, students
Course content
- Preview17:35
- 31:57Webscrape and display results - front end and back end!
- 19:32Replicate the $8 million covid-tracker scraper. Scrape & cool calcs with Python
- 18:14A complete project. Wikipedia scrape and display in beautiful bootstrap table
- 07:30Option: Cross Curriculum reflection: Computing and the Meaning of life
Instructor
![Ruth Benjamin-Marvin](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 156 Reviews
- 9,549 Students
- 4 Courses
Ruth is a former Head of ICT/Computing and AST (Advanced Skills Teacher) at a secondary school in South London. She went part-time a few years ago to pursue web development and the setting up of her own business - teachingcomputing .com. This was followed by the launch of the hugely popular teachyourselfpython .com and just two years ago testandtrack .io was launched, securing a membership of over 1500 schools worldwide. Ruth still teaches Computer science and programming at primary to advanced levels. Her tech training series bring together teaching pedagogy and real world expertise across many fields offering students a unique experience to truly engage, learn and be inspired. Watch this space for a series on building a tech-startup from scratch, more web scraping, Django, Flask, AI, Machine learning, Python zero to pro and more.