Learn Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup

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Learn Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup

The course Learn Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup is an online class provided by Codecademy. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Learn Beautiful Soup, a popular Python library for web scraping.

Course description

Learn Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup
1 Hour

Many of your coding projects may require you to pull a bunch of information from an HTML or XML page. This task can be really tedious and boring, that is until you learn how to scrape the web with an HTML Parser! That’s where Beautiful Soup comes in. This Python package allows you to parse HTML and XML pages with ease and pull all sorts of data off the web.
Say you want to pull all of the tweets from your favorite movie star and run some analysis on their word usage —
scrape em! Maybe you want to make a digital collage all the images you’ve posted of your dog to Instagram — parse em! And if you want to pull a list of all of your friend’s favorite books from Goodreads — Beautiful Soup em!
After this course, you will be able to parse HTML and XML files for all sorts of information.

Beautiful Soup
Learn how to take data that’s displayed on websites and put it into Python using the Beautiful Soup library!

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Learn Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup

Course Topic

Beautiful Soup, Programming, Web Scraping

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Codecademy

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Course Language

English

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Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

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Certificate

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Learn Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup

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