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

```find_next()``` returns a string or a tag that comes directly after the element, ```find_next_sibling()``` returns the next tag that is on the same level of the parse tree.

```find_next()``` and ```find_next_sibling()``` are the same method with different names.

```find_next()``` can returns strings or tags while ```find_next_sibling()``` only returns tags.

```find_next_sibling()``` returns a string or a tag that comes directly after the element, ```find_next()``` returns the next tag that is on the same level of the parse tree.

What is the difference between ```find_next()``` and ```find_next_sibling()```?

<p>What is the difference between <code>find_next()</code> and <code>find_next_sibling()</code>?</p>


```.children``` and ```.descendants``` are the same attribute with different names.

```.children``` will only consider a tag’s direct children, ```.descendants``` will return its direct children, the children of its direct children recursively.

```.children``` will return the tag's direct children, ```.descendants``` will return the tag's children and siblings. 

```.descendants``` will only consider a tag’s direct children, ```.children``` will return its direct children, the children of its direct children recursively.

What is the difference between the attributes of ```.children``` and ```.descendants```?

<p>What is the difference between the attributes of <code>.children</code> and <code>.descendants</code>?</p>


``` list(soup.find_all('strong')[1].strings)[1] ```

``` soup.find_all('br')[1].next_element.string ```

``` soup.find_all('strong')[1].find_next_siblings(string=True)[1].string ```

**(Select all that apply.)** What is the correct way to retrieve the string `chunk 2` from the following code snippet? 
```HTML 
<section>
  <strong> Q) Question 1 </strong>
  <br>
  <strong> A) Answer </strong>
  chunk 1
  <br>
  chunk 2
  <br>
  chunk 3
</section>
```

<p><strong>(Select all that apply.)</strong> What is the correct way to retrieve the string <code>chunk 2</code> from the following code snippet?</p>
<pre><code class="language-HTML">&lt;section&gt;
  &lt;strong&gt; Q) Question 1 &lt;/strong&gt;
  &lt;br&gt;
  &lt;strong&gt; A) Answer &lt;/strong&gt;
  chunk 1
  &lt;br&gt;
  chunk 2
  &lt;br&gt;
  chunk 3
&lt;/section&gt;
</code></pre>


**(Select all that apply.)** What is the correct way to retrieve the element `<p>` from the following code snippet?

```HTML
<dl>
  <dt> 
    <h1> Tags </h1>
  </dt>
  <dd>
    <div> 
      <a href='https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_dd.asp'> HTML Reference </a>
    </div>
  </dd>
  <dd>
    <abbr>D:</abbr>
    <div>
      <p> The dd tag is used to describe a term/name in a description list</p>
    </div>
  </dd>
</dl>
```

<p><strong>(Select all that apply.)</strong> What is the correct way to retrieve the element <code>&lt;p&gt;</code> from the following code snippet?</p>
<pre><code class="language-HTML">&lt;dl&gt;
  &lt;dt&gt; 
    &lt;h1&gt; Tags &lt;/h1&gt;
  &lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;
    &lt;div&gt; 
      &lt;a href='https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_dd.asp'&gt; HTML Reference &lt;/a&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/dd&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;
    &lt;abbr&gt;D:&lt;/abbr&gt;
    &lt;div&gt;
      &lt;p&gt; The dd tag is used to describe a term/name in a description list&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/dd&gt;
&lt;/dl&gt;
</code></pre>


Test your understanding of various Python libraries.

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: Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup