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About the Course

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 Mercedes B P

May 13, 2018

I like the fact that it gives you the intuition behind how to use xml, Json and particularly API's.

By Mukul G

Feb 14, 2018

Covers all the basics of Data formats over Web and the methods to access those. Really good course!

By 张静

Nov 14, 2017

Great course and humorous teacher!

Highly recommended for you to get start with this specialization.

By Abdulaziz A

Sep 19, 2017

I really recommend this course to people who like to know about retrieving/analyzing data from web.

By Byron L

Sep 2, 2017

This is my favorite course, it was totally new for me and Dr. Chuck did it very easy to understand.

By james z

Aug 26, 2017

nice introductory course to web scraping, explicit talk on video and well designed assignment given

By Nahim O

Aug 4, 2017

The courses are excellents, I have learnt a lot and i´m going to continue taking courses as these.

By Lorenzo P

Aug 3, 2016

Pretty great for understanding Python basics. Best way to start your Python or programming life. B|

By Scott J

May 7, 2023

Dr. Severance is a great instructor. The content is relevant and the examples are easy to follow.

By Raviteja R

Jan 10, 2022

Good course to get basics on how to handle webdata using python and also how to handle XML & JSON.

By Ya-Huei C

Jun 1, 2021

Step by step with clear explanation. It is definitely a good course for the new learner of Python.

By Qazi S S

May 12, 2021

It was a wonderful experience learning Python with Dr.Chuck. Looking forward to some more courses.

By ANUGYA O P T

Jul 13, 2020

it is an excellent course , i guess even beginners can use this course for improving their basics.

By Henry E

Jul 12, 2020

Gain new skills and very exited. Much easier than I thought programming would be. Thanks Dr. Chuck

By yUYANG Y (

Dec 4, 2019

This course is very helpful for me to learn to use python to get network data, thank you very much

By Andrew C

Sep 21, 2019

Dr. Chuck is an excellent professor! Hope there can be more courses instructed by him on Coursera!

By Benno R

Sep 9, 2019

Great course. I recommend to take the entire course work from Dr. Severance on Python programming.

By Aditya N

Sep 7, 2019

This course proved to be very beneficial and gave me the confidence to look forward in this field.

By Ibaad H

Jul 22, 2019

Excellent, taught me a lot and the assignments were hard enough that I felt adequately challenged.

By Tommy B

Jul 25, 2018

I really enjoy the class, and it does give me a touch on data access from web using python. Thanks

By Vibhuti

Aug 18, 2017

Good course to understand the basics of web scrapping using python especially for python beginner.

By Saikat D

Jan 29, 2017

In the last two weeks I have gained an immense amount of knowledge under Dr. Severance. Thank You!

By Hoàng M T

Dec 25, 2016

Awesome course!

I've learned a lot from this course! The tutor is amazing!

I'll take the next course

By richard h

Nov 29, 2016

Fantastic! I've told anyone that will listen at my place of work that they should take this class!

By YANGFAN S

Nov 13, 2016

Dr Chuck's instruction is clear and interesting. I have learned a lot of practical skills. Thanks!