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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.

DA

Apr 23, 2020

Great course. The lectures are clear and thorough. The assignments are challenging yet doable. The only thing I would like is to see more assignments to get more practice with the techniques learned.

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By ARUN K

Apr 10, 2021

it will be slightly confusing during starting as we cross and go to xml it gets easier

dont stop with week 3 just go ahead you can complete it

By Alison T

Dec 24, 2015

overall covered a lot of interesting material - hope to see more classes that dive deeper into webscraping and not just getting at the basics

By Sekhar A B

May 8, 2021

A step up from the previous 2 courses. it would have been helpful to include links to more documentation for things like parsing, XML, JSON.

By Akshaya V

Oct 11, 2019

XML was too tough. More time should have been spent to explain how to parse data and use it through xml.Otherwise this course was AWESOME!!!

By Sagar S

Feb 3, 2016

All these courses really need to be updated to Python 3. There is no advantage in sticking to Python 2 anymore with Python4 on the horizon

By Vallian S

Nov 26, 2021

The last API assignment was really confusing. I used the code sample from PY4E website and it worked in one try without changing anything.

By Pablo A R G

Nov 12, 2020

Incredible the scope Python has to extract data from the web, this course increased my desire to delve into the service-oriented approach.

By Sylvie

May 24, 2020

The professor's explanations in this course were a bit less detailed than in the first two courses, but overal the course was really good!

By ofek m

Jan 21, 2020

In the sixth week, it felt like they skimmed over the harder material and took me a while to understand. other that that it was very good.

By Brett S

Feb 18, 2019

Dr Chuck is great. There seemed to be a pretty big leap from the examples and the assignments though. Thoroughly enjoyed the class though.

By Tal L

Apr 23, 2018

This course was also good but I did not enjoy it as the previous ones- guess that the accessing web data issues were not as interesting...

By John S

Aug 12, 2016

Really nice course. Help was available when I needed it, however I think some of the integration of urllib needed to be better elaborated.

By David M

Feb 28, 2016

Some typos in the assignments, but otherwise very straightforward course with good information. -1 star for not having python 3 "support."

By Jan B

Dec 16, 2020

A little bit too easy on assignments and more practical videos on how to login on a website and navigate through it would have been nice.

By Juan D B F

Jul 7, 2020

Overall is a great introduction for access data, perhaps, it has some empty instructions due to the lack of explanation of some contents.

By Subhradip D

Jun 2, 2020

I'm a big fan of Dr. Chuck, and its a great course. I just felt that the XML, JSON, and the API portions could be discussed a little more

By Shivam T

Jun 29, 2019

best course of acessing the web data .he is telling the things in such a sinple manner that everyone can understand.thank you so much sir

By Fredric

Feb 16, 2021

The course is as great as before. But the codes need to be explained more carefully and could introduce more details about the web data.

By Ajinkya M

Jul 14, 2017

Real nice course information. It is a very good course for introductory purpose. Will love to see a more advance version of this course.

By Yagya R J

Mar 1, 2016

Excellent.

But sad part is there are not many exercises and exams. Problem are some how simpler(!) not different from done in examples.

By Sudhit P

Apr 9, 2021

A good Course to learn basics of Web Scrapping using XML and JSON, I learned so much stuff here that I didn't even learn in my College.

By T C

Feb 12, 2021

I occasionally felt lost in the application of the materials, but that could have been my own inability to anticipate a learning curve.

By VAIBHAV B

Jun 21, 2020

great course

twitter part was confusing, it required rigorous permissions from twitter online apps, therefore more insight was required.

By PATIL S M

May 22, 2020

Excellent instructor. He explains the code and concept very clearly. If the course had more coding exercises it would have been amazing

By rachaphon s

Feb 24, 2019

Very nice course. one thing this course can add is the practical example from actual web scraping such as basketball score, stock data.