Master Python Web Scraping & Automation using BS4 & Selenium

Course Overview

• Course Title: Master Python Web Scraping & Automation using BS4 & Selenium
• Instructor: Hussain Mustafa
• Target Audience:
  • Beginner/Intermediate Python Developers
  • Individuals looking to learn more about Web Scraping and Automation
• Prerequisites: Beginner Python Development Experience

Curriculum Highlights

• Key Topics Covered:
  • Fundamentals of Web Scraping and Automation
  • Understanding Xpath & CSS Selectors
  • Working with Spreadsheets and CSV files
  • Automating Websites using Selenium
  • Scraping and Crawling Websites using BeautifulSoup
  • Multi-Threading Web Scraping Operations
  • Web Scraping Best Practices
  • Working with Python Requests Module
  • Understanding Request Headers
  • Exporting Data to XLS Files
  • Sending Emails using Python
  • Working with API’s
  • Reading in Data From A CSV File
  • The fundamentals of Beautiful Soup and LXML
  • Exporting Data to CSV Files
  • Utilizing Multi-Threading to Speed Up Scraping
  • Navigating HTML Documents
  • Extracting Information From HTML elements such as Tables
  • The fundamentals of Selenium
  • Automating Web Actions such as Clicks and Navigation
  • Filling Form Data
  • Screen Capturing Web Pages
  • Efficiently using CSS Selectors & XPaths
• Key Skills Learned:
  • Building powerful Web Scrapers and Bots
  • Using Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Chromium, and Python
  • Scraping data from APIs and HTML web pages
  • Automating web actions
  • Exporting data to CSV and XLS files
  • Sending emails using Python
  • Utilizing multi-threading to speed up scraping
  • Navigating HTML documents
  • Extracting information from HTML elements

Course Format

• Duration: 3.5 hours on-demand video
• Format: Self-paced online course
• Resources:
  • 1 article
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Certificate of completion