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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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The course teaches the basics of how to interact with the internet using Python. The course is simple, well explained, has great interviews with people who were part of the creation of the internet.

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interesting course. well structured and paced with practical real-life examples and clear study materials. i strongly recommend this course for anyone considering learning python. Thank you Dr. Chuck!

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By Miaojun Z

Sep 12, 2016

I like the way the instructor teaches this class. It is full of fun and knowledge. I feel like to use python a lot more now, thanks to this coursera class!

By Wilfred C

Aug 25, 2016

Best of the best. Great instructor and materials. I finished all 4 classes of the series, which tells you how much I enjoy learning from this instructor.

By John Z H H

Dec 2, 2015

i had no knowledge in web api. After this course, I feel confident now to go out and start using all the APIs out there and build my own python application

By Paman G

Nov 10, 2015

Good pace for a beginner/intermediate level Python programmer. The exercises are meaningful and fairly simple. The course is meant only to get you started.

By Abdo K

Jan 6, 2022

i can't thank you enough for this great course it's very interactive and the assignments is very helpful and dr.chuck has great way to deliver the content

By Syed H H S

Sep 2, 2020

You can use the program above as a starter code for any website you want to scrape, but you will have find the HTML elements and tweak the codes a little.

By Ankit N

Jul 14, 2020

Very very useful. I never had such course in my past. I really enjoyed and got priceless knowledge about web data through this course. Thank You Dr. Chuck

By Georgios F

Jun 6, 2020

Amazing course, with an excellent teacher and everything nicely put and easy to understand. Can't wait to continue this specialization on courses 4 and 5!

By sadasiva b

May 17, 2020

Challenging for a newbie like me and required to do a back and forth at times. But loved the lectures where basic explanations by Dr. Chuck helped a lot.

By 刘思成

Mar 19, 2020

i am so happy that i finished it. but i still cannot handle some situation about accessing web data. i will keep studying in my life. thanks for Dr.Chuck!

By Víctor M

Jan 2, 2020

As I said on the previous courses, Charles Severance is an outstanding teacher, his explanations are the best and simple, is the best course I ever took!!

By james r

Dec 18, 2019

this was more difficult but a subject I have been interested in for a long time. I had to review the material to complete the project but it was worth it.

By red s

Nov 26, 2018

Useful and practical examples. Theory is clearly demonstrated with sample code. Engaging teacher. Well produced and synchronized ideas with code practice.

By 王子瑜

Mar 13, 2018

Dr Chuck made an excellent job! I enjoyed learning from the beginning till the end! This course is going to be a solid foundation of my career. Thank you.

By Henrik B

Jun 3, 2016

I liked it very much. Good style, do not go into useless details, focus on understanding, enough to start the deeper understanding on your own. Thank you!

By IVY Z

May 17, 2016

This course is phenomenal. I learned so much from this course. Dr.Chuck is one of the best professors you will find and is very entertaining to listen to.

By Marketa V

Aug 28, 2020

I really liked the lectures and the simple way Charles explained things. His attitude was very pleasant, the best I so far experienced in a video course.

By Jeffrey W

Apr 15, 2020

Content is getting harder. Some additional explanation of how to get the from having a URL to pulling in the XML / JSON data would have been beneficial.

By deadfish

Apr 3, 2020

In this course, I started to encounter some really difficult tasks, and I sincerely appreciate the help of the teaching assistant and Dr. Chuck's videos.

By Trivendram p

Mar 1, 2020

The course is very nice , The assingments of the course are very good and are very useful for the implication of the concepts learned from the classes .

By Arturo R

Apr 20, 2018

La especialización cada vez es más interesante. Conceptos presentados de manera clara y ejercicios completos que permiten poner en práctica lo aprendido.

By mostafa a s

Sep 17, 2017

i think this course is great but it needed a little more knowledge in web stuff overall it was well explained i didn't need to get knowledge from outside

By Mahamaro H A

Jul 8, 2017

i 've been always looking for a course on web scraping and this is my best one so far. although i am new to python...the lecture is quite easy to follow.

By AKHIL S

May 14, 2020

Very good course! Introduced me to web scraping an enriched me with the basics.

This is a good starting point for anyone who wants to learn web scraping.

By NG Y H

Nov 9, 2019

The class was well-taught and well-structured. The instructor was clear and the resources provided were very useful in helping me to learn the concepts.