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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.

AH

Mar 3, 2016

Gah! The second last assignment...for items in data['comments'] :Took me an hour to figure out that I needed to add that last bit in brackets! It just did the for loop twice each time... All the best!

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By Tommaso F

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Nov 9, 2020

This a little way worst than the first two but Dr. Chuck is Amazing also in this course :)

By Ariel G

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Jul 31, 2019

very useful introductory course to web scraping. Requires effort in learning JSON and XML.

By Viktor M

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Feb 26, 2016

I'd like this course to be more difficult and i'd like it to have more practical exercises

By John J

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Jan 24, 2016

very good course for beginner. Simple explanation of the essentials needed for web access.

By Jesse F

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Dec 2, 2015

Great course, great instructor! I've learned a lot, but the assignments are a little easy.

By Ethan C

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Jan 26, 2019

Great course! But on GeoJson google tweaked the url requirments and you would need a key.

By Gritsunick A

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Feb 10, 2016

It would be great if there were more practice. The theoretical material as always on top.

By Girish D K

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Sep 8, 2020

You should also need to give more information about other languages used in this course.

By Juan f h m

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Sep 4, 2020

For beginners, some parts of this course are kind hard. Teachers should think about that

By Visweshwar.G

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Jul 26, 2020

the twitter api part could have been explained better

other part of this course was great

By Sachitha V S

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Jun 8, 2020

I Did complete the course but i didnt understand some of the codes but i can use them...

By Madhav A S

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May 12, 2020

Last section on APIs is very confusing, much harder, big leap from the first two courses

By Martin L

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Dec 27, 2016

great course although a few things seemed to be outside of both the course and the book.

By Shubham K

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Mar 2, 2016

little more information of the supporting programs that we are using should be provided.

By Juan C L

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Dec 8, 2015

Good course. Nice introduction to python

web tools. Cool explanations.Highly advisable

By Deleted A

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Nov 26, 2020

An excellent course to learn about the connection between web and python, JSON and API.

By Craig H

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Sep 1, 2020

Lectures felt rushed at times, but otherwise a good, brief overview on a complex topic.

By Viddya K

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Jul 16, 2020

Kept me glued to my laptop. Every graded tool assignment was very interesting to solve.

By Syed S A

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May 10, 2020

This course provide good insights working with the networking and web data with python.

By PRACHI A

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Apr 10, 2020

Thank you Coursera for your initiative to make this courses free during this pandemic.

By Gustavo R E

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Sep 10, 2019

it is confusing, I would suggest a greater approach to python before taking this course

By KIRILL B

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Mar 7, 2019

i feel like there could be more details added to "why" and "how".

But anyway i liked it.

By D S

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Jun 26, 2017

Some information about json and how its dictionaries and list could be better explained

By Alejandro M

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Jan 26, 2025

Have some challenging tests (in the programing) some of them need better explanations.

By Rupi J

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Jul 7, 2021

Good Course. Chuck is a very patient instructor tries to explain everything thoroughly