Master web scraping with Python, HTML, Requests, Beautiful Soup, and Scrapy. Learn skills like pagination and gain hands-on experience in data-driven careers.

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You’ll begin this course by exploring fundamental web concepts and HTML structures. You’ll then use the Requests and Beautiful Soup libraries to extract data from static web pages. Later, you’ll utilize Selenium to interact with JavaScript-driven websites and capture dynamically loaded content. Next, you’ll use CSS Selectors and XPath to pinpoint specific elements on web pages, ensuring precise and targeted data extraction. With this solid foundation, you’ll look into Scrapy, a robust web crawling and scraping framework. Finally, you’ll learn to navigate common challenges such as pagination and login forms, building scalable scraping solutions to tackle real-world projects effectively.

By the end of this course, you’ll have gained ample hands-on experience in web scraping, from crafting automated data collection systems to analyzing trends and insights. Your newfound expertise in web scraping will elevate your career prospects and unlock boundless opportunities in the data-driven world of technology.

Mastering Web Scraping Using Python: From Beginner to Advanced

Which pattern is used to get all the ```<a href="URL3">``` elements in the given code snippet?
```HTML
<div>
    <a href="URL1"></a>
    <ul>
        <li>
            <a href="URL2"></a>
        </li>
    </ul>
    <a href="URL3"></a>
</div>
```

<p>Which pattern is used to get all the <code>&lt;a href=&quot;URL3&quot;&gt;</code> elements in the given code snippet?</p>
<pre><code class="language-HTML">&lt;div&gt;
    &lt;a href=&quot;URL1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
    &lt;ul&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;
            &lt;a href=&quot;URL2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/ul&gt;
    &lt;a href=&quot;URL3&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</code></pre>


Which pattern is used to get the ```<p id="answer">``` tag in the given code snippet?
```HTML
<div> 
    <h1> Test </h1>
</div>
<div>
    <h2 id="question">Question 1</h2>
    <p id="answer"> Answer </p>
</div>
```

<p>Which pattern is used to get the <code>&lt;p id=&quot;answer&quot;&gt;</code> tag in the given code snippet?</p>
<pre><code class="language-HTML">&lt;div&gt; 
    &lt;h1&gt; Test &lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
    &lt;h2 id=&quot;question&quot;&gt;Question 1&lt;/h2&gt;
    &lt;p id=&quot;answer&quot;&gt; Answer &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</code></pre>


```soup.select("section p:first-child")```

```soup.select("section p:nth-child(3)")```

```soup.select("section p:nth-last-child(1)")```

```soup.select("section p:first-of-type")```

Which pattern is used to get the ```chunk 1``` element in the given code snippet?
```HTML
<div>
    <h1>review</h2>
    <section>
        <h2> User 1 </h2>
        <p> chunk 1 </p>
        <p> chunk 2 </p>
        <p> chunk 3 </p>
    </section>
</div>
```

<p>Which pattern is used to get the <code>chunk 1</code> element in the given code snippet?</p>
<pre><code class="language-HTML">&lt;div&gt;
    &lt;h1&gt;review&lt;/h2&gt;
    &lt;section&gt;
        &lt;h2&gt; User 1 &lt;/h2&gt;
        &lt;p&gt; chunk 1 &lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt; chunk 2 &lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt; chunk 3 &lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;/section&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</code></pre>


Which pattern is used to get the ```<p class="follow-up">``` element in the given code snippet?
```HTML
<div>
    <h1>Q1</h1>
    <section>
        <p class="question-text1"> text1 </p>
        <p class="question-text2"> text2 </p>
    </section>
    <p class="follow-up"> follow up </p>
</div>
```

<p>Which pattern is used to get the <code>&lt;p class=&quot;follow-up&quot;&gt;</code> element in the given code snippet?</p>
<pre><code class="language-HTML">&lt;div&gt;
    &lt;h1&gt;Q1&lt;/h1&gt;
    &lt;section&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;question-text1&quot;&gt; text1 &lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;question-text2&quot;&gt; text2 &lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;/section&gt;
    &lt;p class=&quot;follow-up&quot;&gt; follow up &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</code></pre>


Test your understanding of the concepts of CSS selectors.

Introduction to Course Content and Web Scraping

Fundamental Concepts of Web Scraping

Dynamic Sites with Selenium

Assessment: Python Scraping

Scrapy Framework

Scraping Educative’s Courses Information

Wrap Up

Quiz: CSS Selectors