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About the Course

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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SM

Jun 18, 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.

KZ

Jul 2, 2017

This course is great to introduce you to regular expression, HTML, XML and JSON. Based on this course, you may dive into many other materials to further learning how to use python to access web data.

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By Jess R

May 23, 2020

Really good course, as the instructor kept the lessons to the foundational points and didn't go too much into crazy detail, as we're all new.

By Arido R

Jan 26, 2020

it has been a great experience in taking and finishing this course, especially on how Dr. Chuck give the explanation and also the assignment.

By Dave K

Apr 23, 2019

Great class. More challenging than the previous two courses, but worth it for the skills you gain. Highly recommend. Dr. Chuck is the man!

By Jan v B

Nov 8, 2018

It's good but more examples to practise finding the right elements in json data structures with multiple lists and dictionaries would be good

By Michael Y

Jan 24, 2017

Thanks Dr.chuck has provided such great course. This is a good course to get basic skill to access web data using Python. Five star recommend

By Jaap v E

Oct 1, 2016

Great course. Interesting and fun. Final assignment could be a bit more difficult, imho (but that doesn't make me give me less than 5 stars).

By Rodney A

Dec 22, 2015

The information is presented is really easy to understand useful. I wish I could dr Chuck teach more complicated subject like algorithm !!!!

By Dimitris P

Dec 12, 2015

That was one of the most interesting courses. It's amazing what you can do with this language, the web data you can manipulate. It's awesome.

By Arash B

Jul 8, 2021

Another perfect course from Coursera. Anybody who wants to learn about json, XML and most importantly web scraping should take this course.

By Ruslan S

Oct 25, 2020

That was good but Google and Twitter started to hide the data and I'm very angry for them because of it. Thank you again Chuck and The Team!

By Maradana T k

Aug 6, 2020

This particular course in python specialization is a bit challenging but it's really exciting.

Learnt a lot about parsing data from websites.

By Steve L

Jul 9, 2019

I enjoyed this course very much and while I didn't think I would use what was taught I was pleasantly surprised as I do have a use for API's

By Alisha B

Jul 26, 2018

The course was a bit challenging, but as a whole it was very good. The discussion forums were a great help for me while solving assignments.

By Okechukwu B O

Nov 8, 2017

Very useful course in understanding how to read web data. Highly Recommened Course to take your python programming skills to the next level.

By SIRAJ G

Sep 12, 2017

Concepts were explained nicely. There is no deep dive though, but I think deep dive at a beginner state is detrimental for further progress.

By Adam N

Dec 18, 2016

Dr. Chuck has been a very inspirational and enjoyable teacher. I have learned a great deal about Python and have had a great time doing it.

By Faisal M

Jul 25, 2023

The best thing about this course is Dr Chuck. His teaching style is so good and can teach a diverse group of people without problem. Legend

By Khurram S

Apr 22, 2021

This was my first hands-on experience with web scraping, parsing, XML and JSON. It has just enough information to get me started on my own.

By Mehmet B O

Nov 11, 2020

It was a nice course, but I try to complete as fast as possible and feel like a little overloaded. Get to much help from stack ovf and git.

By Carlos A O R

Nov 2, 2020

The course delivers what promises: once you finish you know how to access web data using Python. Highly recommended for "newbies" (like me)

By Gaza B

Sep 4, 2020

I enjoyed the course, was also tasking. Got frustrated at some points but i eventually got through it. really a great time learning python.

By Aleksei E

Apr 24, 2020

Everything is fine excluding the final assignment of the week 6. Nobody told how to use "key=42" and where to put it (spoiler: at the END).

By Vaikar A A

Apr 11, 2020

Coursera is the best, till now I have completed three courses on coursera. And about Using Python to Access Web Datais best thing I learned

By Chien D

Mar 24, 2020

Awesome course. Now I can basically understand about networking. How to crawl data from the internet, or using socket to acess data outside

By Zhen Z

Oct 23, 2019

Great overview course to get the idea and basic operations by yourself. Good for beginners and leading to more thorough learnings later on.