The Ultimate Web Scraping With Python Bootcamp 2025

Welcome to the Ultimate Web Scraping With Python Bootcamp, the only course you need to go from a complete beginner in python to a very competent web scraper. Web scraping is the process of programmatically extracting data from the web. Scraping agents visit a web resource, extract content from it, and then process the resulting data in order to parse some specific information of interest.

Scraping is the kind of programming skill that offers immediate feedback, and can be used to automate a wide variety of data collection and processing tasks. Over the next 17+ hours, we will methodically cover everything you need to know to write web scraping agents in python. This bootcamp is organized in three parts of increasing difficulty designed to help you progressively build your skill.

Part I - BeginWe'll start by understanding how the web works by taking a closer look at HTTP, the key application layer communication protocol of the modern web. Next, we'll explore HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from first principles to get a deeper understanding of how website are built. Finally, we'll learn how to use python to send HTTP requests and parse the resulting HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to extract the data we need.

Our goal in the first part of the course is to build a solid foundation in both web scraping and python, and put those skills to practice by building functional web scrapers from scratch. Selected topics include:a detailed overview the request-response cycleunderstanding user-agents, HTTP verbs, headers and statusesunderstanding why custom headers can often be used to bypass paywallsmastering the requests library to work with HTTP in pythonwhat stateless means and how cookies workexploring the role of proxies in modern web architecturesmastering beautifulsoup for parsing and data extractionPart II - RefineIn the second part of the course, we'll build on the foundation we've already laid to explore more advanced topics in web scraping. We'll learn how to scrape dynamic websites that use JavaScript to render their content, by setting up Microsoft Playwright as a headless browser to automate this process.