This comprehensive course is designed to hone your web scraping skills further, allowing you to implement scalable scripts that navigate through and extract data from multiple pages of a website. This course focuses on practical examples, like scraping quotes from 'http://quotes.toscrape.com', iteratively processing multiple pages and managing data extraction in a structured manner.
Overview
Syllabus
- Lesson 1: Handling Issues During Web Scraping
- Run and Observe Error Handling
- Fix the Scraping Script
- Handling Errors in Web Scraping
- Web Scraping Error Handling
- Lesson 2: Advanced Link Navigation and URL Management in Web Scraping
- Navigate and Scrape with Python
- Adding Quote Tags for More Detail
- Navigating Linked Author Pages
- Scrape Books and Author Bios
- Navigate and Scrape Author Details
- Lesson 3: Structured Data Extraction and Storage with Python
- Store Scraped Data in CSV
- Adding Author's Description
- Complete the Scraping Code
- Add Extra Data in Scraping
- Scrape and Save Quotes Data
- Lesson 4: Scraping Best Practices
- Best Practices of Web Scraper in Action
- Fix the Web Scraper Bugs
- Complete the Web Scraper
- Build an Optimized Web Scraper
