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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 Alfonso S R

May 25, 2016

One of the courses that upon completing, leave you certain of your new capacities. Very rewarding and even entertaining.

By Tamaz L

Feb 28, 2016

Although I've given 5 stars to the other classes of the specialization, I think this one beats the others in a big time.

By Sergio C

Jan 13, 2016

With this course you really feel that you are starting to do something real, that you may also use in your daily life...

By Daniel C

Nov 10, 2015

This course help easy way to learn python for useful things like REST API consumption, that nowadays are very important.

By Mike C

Nov 8, 2015

So great! I really love this class helps me more closer to Python and it's powerful functions, so many thanks Dr. Chuck!

By Ly T

Jul 10, 2020

It is a more challenging course than the previous two but it is what I expected from this level. Dr Chuck is wonderful!

By Sarthak N

Jul 2, 2020

Honestly, wow! what a course! helped me so much and I feel like I have some grip on python now. This is really helping.

By Mengjie X

May 2, 2020

Great!! Thanks Dr. Chuck. This course leads me to the door of python, and I hope to continue study more about web data.

By Anoubhav A

Jun 6, 2018

The portion was vast however a bit rushed. One will have a great sense of satisfaction after completing it. Good course

By tongkakit

Dec 25, 2017

It is tough sometimes while tackling the assignments, but generally it is an exciting and fruitful learning experience.

By Mónica B C

Nov 5, 2016

Great course. I like how you put effort into creating the videos and trying to make avaible knowledge for the community

By Tran Q T

Aug 7, 2021

This is really hard object. But the professor explanation very clear. Make you understand about the very basic define.

By Johan E C O

Jul 28, 2020

A wonderful experience, all topics were fully explained and the tasks really help to deep into the acquired knowledges

By Tanvir D

May 6, 2020

This course is wonderful and gradual upstepped as compared to earlier two courses on introduction and data structures

By costa c

Dec 21, 2017

Excellent teaching material, excellent assignments, it's a pleasure listening to Dr Chuck teach python, awesome course

By Vaibhav K

Dec 15, 2017

Such nice course. This is a first time, I have learned a lot about new king web programming from coursera.

It's pretty.

By Krishna K K

Jan 13, 2017

Awesome course. Must take if you want to learn how to access, read and use data from internet (xml/json) using Python

By Isabel D d I

Jan 16, 2016

Very good content. The difficulty increases, but if you know the content of the two previous courses you can suceed!!!

By Sarthak S

Jul 3, 2023

same as the previous courses, it was amazing and full of wishdom!

Every Professor needs to be like Dr. Chuck, hehe :))

By Mikhail E

Dec 2, 2020

Useful to begin your journey in getting web data with Python. However after completion, there will be long way to go!

By Sebastián P

Sep 20, 2020

It's a good course for understanding how to use python for retrieve data from JSON and XML using API. I recommend it.

By Jean P F M

Aug 29, 2020

Another great course by Dr. Chuck. Amazing experience, totally recommend it. Thank you very much for the opportunity!

By Nihar B

Jul 7, 2020

I enjoyed this course and following it step by step made me realize how easily I can scrape the web and extract data.

By Bradley D

Jan 4, 2020

This course is easy to learn, with easy-to-understand videos that will help you to learn "Python to Access Web Data."

By michael w

Oct 25, 2019

This was the most challenging course for me so far. I look forward to taking the next course in the series very soon.