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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 Alejandra P M

Aug 14, 2017

Buen curso para los principiantes en programación. Además de que el contenido es sencillo y fácil de entender. El Dr. Chuck es muy buen maestro

By Teng-Yuan C

Dec 1, 2016

This course quickly gives me an overview of how to write a web crawling program using Python, from fundamental to practice. Highly recommended!

By Florence F

Jan 4, 2021

Great course, and special mention to the instructor (extremely knowledgeable) who makes the course so much more than just python programming.

By Huiting Z

Nov 10, 2018

Useful contents, again, I love how Charles used those metaphors to make all the systems/protocols/programming languages so easy to understand!

By Gianmaria M

Jul 15, 2018

As always Dr. Charles Severance is a great lecturer. The structure of the class, the material and the examples make it easy also for beginners

By Karan J

Dec 4, 2021

Definitely the course is hard but it is worth it. Also you can complete the course only if you put a little time in reading stuff on internet

By Anjali D S

Mar 4, 2021

This course is very helpful. Learning of this course gives you proper idea of how to scrap,parse,retrive web data using python. It's amazing.

By SERGIO C G

Jan 24, 2021

It was great, useful and it has a lot of support content and examples.Exactly what you need to start scraping data from scratch.Thanks a lot!

By Lui S O

Aug 11, 2020

Great course just as every Dr Chuck's courses do. Clear introduction on how to connect to the web with Python, different file formats and api

By Jess R

May 23, 2020

Really good course, as the instructor kept the lessons to the foundational points and didn't go too much into crazy detail, as we're all new.

By Arido R

Jan 26, 2020

it has been a great experience in taking and finishing this course, especially on how Dr. Chuck give the explanation and also the assignment.

By Dave K

Apr 23, 2019

Great class. More challenging than the previous two courses, but worth it for the skills you gain. Highly recommend. Dr. Chuck is the man!

By Jan v B

Nov 8, 2018

It's good but more examples to practise finding the right elements in json data structures with multiple lists and dictionaries would be good

By Michael Y

Jan 24, 2017

Thanks Dr.chuck has provided such great course. This is a good course to get basic skill to access web data using Python. Five star recommend

By Jaap v E

Oct 1, 2016

Great course. Interesting and fun. Final assignment could be a bit more difficult, imho (but that doesn't make me give me less than 5 stars).

By Rodney A

Dec 22, 2015

The information is presented is really easy to understand useful. I wish I could dr Chuck teach more complicated subject like algorithm !!!!

By Dimitris P

Dec 12, 2015

That was one of the most interesting courses. It's amazing what you can do with this language, the web data you can manipulate. It's awesome.

By Arash B

Jul 8, 2021

Another perfect course from Coursera. Anybody who wants to learn about json, XML and most importantly web scraping should take this course.

By Ruslan S

Oct 25, 2020

That was good but Google and Twitter started to hide the data and I'm very angry for them because of it. Thank you again Chuck and The Team!

By Maradana T k

Aug 6, 2020

This particular course in python specialization is a bit challenging but it's really exciting.

Learnt a lot about parsing data from websites.

By Steve L

Jul 9, 2019

I enjoyed this course very much and while I didn't think I would use what was taught I was pleasantly surprised as I do have a use for API's

By Alisha B

Jul 26, 2018

The course was a bit challenging, but as a whole it was very good. The discussion forums were a great help for me while solving assignments.

By Okechukwu B O

Nov 8, 2017

Very useful course in understanding how to read web data. Highly Recommened Course to take your python programming skills to the next level.

By SIRAJ G

Sep 12, 2017

Concepts were explained nicely. There is no deep dive though, but I think deep dive at a beginner state is detrimental for further progress.

By Adam N

Dec 18, 2016

Dr. Chuck has been a very inspirational and enjoyable teacher. I have learned a great deal about Python and have had a great time doing it.