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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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AH

Mar 4, 2016

Gah! The second last assignment...for items in data['comments'] :Took me an hour to figure out that I needed to add that last bit in brackets! It just did the for loop twice each time... All the best!

SM

Jun 19, 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.

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By Marc W

Dec 4, 2015

Very useful class - all topics a relevant for retrieving data over the web

By Sai M

Sep 23, 2022

This is a great beginner course. Give you a taste of what python can do.

By Michael B

Jan 13, 2021

Great class. All of Dr. Chuck's classes are informative and well taught!

By Jay S

Jan 10, 2021

Excellent presentation of concepts in python as they become more complex.

By felipe a

Jan 8, 2021

It is a great course to learn how to access data from the web, XML, JSON.

By Мұқанбетқали Д Б

Aug 21, 2020

I think this part of Py4e easiest than previous courses. Thanks Dr. Chuck

By Nizamuddin S

Aug 5, 2020

A thorough coverage of REST API, web-scrapping, json and xml data access.

By Priyansh D

Apr 27, 2020

The Topic was Best as always. But this time the codes were very difficult

By Dr J

Apr 22, 2020

Its an good experience to learn python and to upgrade knowledge in python

By Jennifer B

May 27, 2019

Really interesting course. It really demonstrates how powerful Python is.

By AMIT K S

Mar 5, 2019

Instructor is really helpful, providing base knowledge at every concept.

By Amit K

Feb 4, 2019

Awesome course by a super awesome professor on the best learning platform

By Sourav R

Jan 31, 2019

Great learning experience, Dr chuck is awesome so as each and every staff

By Irina B

Aug 26, 2018

Excellent course! Very interesting and useful material! Highly recommend!

By Tong

Jul 12, 2018

Very useful using python to do awesome things like grabbing data from web

By Rafael P

May 5, 2018

Great introduction to accessing web data with python. Highly recommended.

By Vinicio D S

Feb 19, 2018

Great for connecting to the web using Python: API, web crawler, XML, etc.

By Yogesh C

Feb 4, 2018

Faculty is one of the finest faculty i have seen ever. Many thanks again.

By Naveen D

Jan 27, 2017

It's a very good course .I learned a lot about accessing web data ,APIs .

By Ying C

Jan 8, 2017

Amazing course with clear explanation of the concept and hand-on practice

By Giovanny M A

Oct 8, 2016

Excelent course, is a very good introduction to the web and api services.

By Zhean Y

Mar 24, 2016

Access web data is really a cool thing by using python and print it out .

By Alvaro E

Feb 26, 2016

Dr Chuck is scaffolding step by step your skills in python in a cozy way.

By Thomas H

Jan 6, 2016

Good class - estimated effort is appropriate - and the teacher has humor.

By Aditya G

Dec 26, 2015

Lectures were very informative and sample code was provided for studying.