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.
Using Python to Access Web Data
Using Python to Access Web Data
This course is part of Python for Everybody Specialization
Instructor: Charles Russell Severance
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Use regular expressions to extract data from strings
Understand the protocols web browsers use to retrieve documents and web apps
Retrieve data from websites and APIs using Python
Work with XML (eXtensible Markup Language) data
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There are 6 modules in this course
In this section you will install Python and a text editor. In previous classes in the specialization this was an optional assignment, but in this class it is the first requirement to get started. From this point forward we will stop using the browser-based Python grading environment because the browser-based Python environment (Skulpt) is not capable of running the more complex programs we will be developing in this class.
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Regular expressions are a very specialized language that allow us to succinctly search strings and extract data from strings. Regular expressions are a language unto themselves. It is not essential to know how to use regular expressions, but they can be quite useful and powerful.
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4 videos1 reading1 assignment1 app item
In this section we learn about the protocols that web browsers use to retrieve documents and web applications use to interact with Application Program Interfaces (APIs).
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8 videos1 reading1 assignment1 app item
In this section we learn to use Python to retrieve data from web sites and APIs over the Internet.
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8 videos1 reading1 assignment2 app items
In this section, we learn how to retrieve and parse XML (eXtensible Markup Language) data.
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8 videos1 assignment1 app item
In this module, we work with Application Program Interfaces / Web Services using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data format.
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Dr. Chuck's course offers a comprehensive introduction to Python APIs for web data access, with highly recommended content for parsing XML and JSON formats. Learners appreciated the friendly course presentation and detailed assignments, highlighting its usefulness for understanding the basics. While some desired more challenging assignments and support for newer Python versions, the course remains highly recommended for those eager to grasp foundational Python skills.
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Dr. Chuck is so skilled at teaching. His teaching style and presentations are easy to follow. The class is not as challenging as other Python courses, but it's a great step to learning Python well.
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Reviewed on Dec 8, 2017
Yet again a great course from Dr.Chuck. Only suggestion I have is the disclaimer that kind of put me off i.e. only Python 2.x support would be given:)We would love to have support for Python 3 too:)
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Reviewed on Sep 13, 2017
The course teaches the basics of how to interact with the internet using Python. The course is simple, well explained, has great interviews with people who were part of the creation of the internet.
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