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This course will show how one can treat the Internet as a source of data. We will scrape, parse, and read web data as well as access data using web APIs. We will work with HTML, XML, and JSON data formats in Python. This course will cover Chapters 11-13 of the textbook “Python for Everybody”. To succeed in this course, you should be familiar with the material covered in Chapters 1-10 of the textbook and the first two courses in this specialization. These topics include variables and expressions, conditional execution (loops, branching, and try/except), functions, Python data structures (strings, lists, dictionaries, and tuples), and manipulating files. This course covers Python 3....
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SM

Jun 18, 2020

This course was really interesting and did a good job introducing complicated topics in usefully simplified form. It was a pleasure to listen to the instructor and I got everything I wanted out of it.

AB

Jun 6, 2019

Getting a bit more challenging than the earlier courses in the specialization. The exercises require more struggle, but all the information is there. Another step along the way. Thank you, Dr. Chuck!

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By Nilrey J D C

Aug 20, 2018

It's a very good introduction on how to use Python to access web data and storing it in a database, process and conduct analysis that you would like.

By Elias

Jan 16, 2017

love the teaching style of Chuck and the very actionable tests and scripts provided

this is an essential foundation training. cannot recommend it more

By Ellyn

Jan 3, 2017

This course helped me immensely with API fundamentals that I always wanted to know about. It is the beginning of greater things. Thank you Dr. Chuck!

By Kevin O

Aug 15, 2016

Assignments could be a little more difficult and not exactly like examples. Still a great course and I learned a lot about retrieving data from urls.

By PAMARTHI K

Sep 25, 2020

In this course I learn JSON, HTML, and how to access the data from the Websites Thank you very much dear Coursera Team for giving this opportunities

By Yousef K

Apr 2, 2020

It was really great and it taught me more real-world applications than the previous 2 courses (which was a given since those were beginner courses).

By Jason K

Mar 27, 2018

Great course with a refresher on networking. Dr. Chuck is splendidly understandable and explains concepts that even a layperson could easily absorb.

By Katona S

Jul 9, 2017

The course covered usefull applications and methodes to access web data. My only problem was that while I was doing it, it was switched to python 3.

By Alessandro

Jan 5, 2016

It is a very good course with book. The only think is I would like to have a more complex exercises. Most of them are just to modify some given code

By Justin M

Nov 7, 2022

Dr. Severence does an amazing job breaking down a lot of the concepts and the way you think about them. You really pick up a lot from this course!!

By Jhon J A H

May 12, 2021

This is a good course to put into practice what was learned in the previous courses and additionally know how to get data from the web using python

By Mynor A G B

Apr 29, 2021

Excelente sistema de enseñanza y herramientas para la extraccion de los datos de la web, vale la pena hacer los ejercicios e intentar nuevas cosas.

By Krishnam A

Sep 16, 2020

This is the course i really enjoyed to complete till now. i do not know if i will enjoy course 4 and 5 but i really enjoyed course 3. I really did.

By Roberto I B E

Sep 11, 2020

Great Course! You can really undestand diferent terms like JSON, APIS, encoding and decoding data from the web, everything from a Python Enviroment

By Shaurabh T

Jun 27, 2020

It was an awesome course. I have never thought that we can do such things with web using Python. Thanks to University of Michigan for such a Course

By Omar H G

May 23, 2020

The teacher is great, I think difficulty is greater than the previous 1-2 but reviewing, studying and doing some research you can have good results

By Michael S

Oct 12, 2018

Just a fantastic class. The things I've learned! The confidence I've gained in my ability to figure things out!

Truly, a wonderful set of classes.

By Awokoya E

Apr 23, 2017

This was one of the best course I ever took in python. Now I use it to understand the web and also to write API program. Thank you so much Coursera

By Suleiman A

Jul 25, 2024

I want to thank Dr-Chuk for this class ,I recommend all specialization courses for some one who want to learn python in solving real world problem

By Anthony C

Sep 27, 2023

it was great right up until the very end when they didn't give me all the data i needed. (but that was a cute little bit of hacking encouragement)

By Graham J

Jul 31, 2021

Great to see different web formats and get a basic introduction while leveraging the concepts studied in previous courses in this specialization.

By Juan M U

Jul 25, 2020

Very usefull and interesting course. I have learned a lot about web access, xml, Json and APIs. But some examples and explanations wold be better.

By Zawmyo H

Jul 4, 2020

This is a great course to learn how to access web data using Python. The course teaches the fundamentals of XML, JSON, API and other Web Services.

By Larry C

Apr 3, 2020

Learned elemental techniques to use Regular Expressions, XML, and JSON as well as connecting programmatically to web servers from a Python program

By Renjie_Li

Nov 4, 2018

Interesting! It's very easy to understand. I really appreciate the instructor,Dr. Chuck, for everything in his efforts. It really helps me a lot.