Python Web Scraping Basics
Collect data from web pages with Python, Beautiful Soup and polite scraping rules.
What you'll learn
- Fetch and parse HTML with Beautiful Soup
- Select elements with CSS selectors
- Follow pagination and save to CSV
- Scrape politely and legally
About this course
You scrape a practice site built for scraping. You parse HTML, follow pagination, save to CSV and follow robots.txt and rate limits.
Course curriculum
4 modules and 12 lessons over 4 weeks. Plan for about 12 learning hours.
01FetchingWeek 1 · 3 lessons
- requests
- Status codes
- Headers
02ParsingWeek 2 · 3 lessons
- Beautiful Soup
- CSS selectors
- Cleaning text
03CrawlingWeek 3 · 3 lessons
- Pagination
- Delays
- robots.txt
04SavingWeek 4 · 3 lessons
- CSV
- JSON
- Final scraper
Project
Practice scraper. A scraper for a practice site that saves clean data to CSV.
Who this course is for
Python learners who need data from web pages.
Prerequisites
You know Python basics.
What's included
- 180-day course access
- Project brief
- Starter repository
- Coding labs
- Reference solutions
- One written project review
- A digital completion certificate
Learning format
Project-based online course, part of our guided project courses. One written project review.
Access and delivery
- Course access is delivered within 15 minutes after payment.
- Written project review is returned within 2 business days of submission.
- Completion materials are issued within 2 business days after the project is approved.
Certificate
You receive a digital completion certificate. Completion materials are issued within 2 business days after the project is approved.
Frequently asked questions
When does access start?
Course access is delivered within 15 minutes after payment.
Is payment taken on this website?
No. After you submit your enrollment request, we reply by email with payment details and enrollment confirmation.
Does this course guarantee a job or income?
No. It is an education and training service and does not include employment, income or placement guarantees.
Can I cancel?
Our Refund and Cancellation Policy lists the terms for project-based programs.
