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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.

AB

Jun 6, 2019

Getting a bit more challenging than the earlier courses in the specialization. The exercises require more struggle, but all the information is there. Another step along the way. Thank you, Dr. Chuck!

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By Johnson N

Aug 24, 2018

Chuck is awesome. And his classes are awesome. Learnt much about JSON, XML, data parsing and how to use python to interact with the web in this class.

By Luke O

Jan 17, 2018

Pretty solid class overall. Definitely some things that I am glad I learned here. Such as library use and applying data structures to actual problems.

By Amir N

Feb 19, 2017

Again, great course from awesome programming teacher Dr. Chuck! Recommend this course for anyone who wants to learn the basics of API and web parsing.

By Bachir K E

Dec 28, 2020

Dr.Chuck is awesome and the course keeps getting more and more interesting, can't wait to see what the next courses are hiding, 100% would recommend.

By Can S

Dec 20, 2020

This course was harder than I thought, but Mr. Chuck explained the topics clearly. The examples are well designed, as well. Thank you for everything.

By Ankit k

Sep 25, 2020

Dr.Chuck is one of the awesome instructor you can get on coursera.

The material is beginner friendly and is good to start your journey.

Thanks dr.Chuck

By Gabriel M B

Aug 6, 2020

Excellent course, the instructor Chuck is amazing, he is really clear when explains all the technical concepts, also the examples are really usefull.

By Utsav N

Jul 29, 2020

Awesome course .got to learn a lot of new things!!I want to thank Proff. charles Severance for teaching us and providing us a wonderful experience!!

By kalyana c G

Jul 20, 2020

The course content is simple and well explained by the instructor. This course gave me the confidence to use python to access web at the basic level.

By Upendra J

Jul 20, 2020

Very nice course to start understanding how the data moves from here to there. Many many thanks to Coursera and Capgemini for providing the resource.

By I W E D P

Jul 19, 2020

In this course, we are taught ways to access data that comes from the web. Explanations are quite easy to follow and practice. Thank you Dr. Chuck ^^

By Nancy S

Jul 10, 2020

The instructor made the entire leaning process fun and easy to follow &understand. I loved it and I learned a lot from it. Thank you Mr. Severance!

By Nancy T

Jun 29, 2020

Challenging, fun. Materials great - Videos spot on, Assignments tough enough, but each teases out new concepts and reinforces prior learning.

Thanks!

By Paul B

Jun 4, 2020

Good course to learn how to do something with web data. The course provides information and explains libraries that will assist in parsing the data.

By Christopher S A

May 17, 2019

Yet again another great course, this one was a bit more challenging and got to more real-world type scenarios. Really enjoyed it. On to the next...

By Nilrey J D C

Aug 20, 2018

It's a very good introduction on how to use Python to access web data and storing it in a database, process and conduct analysis that you would like.

By Elias

Jan 16, 2017

love the teaching style of Chuck and the very actionable tests and scripts provided

this is an essential foundation training. cannot recommend it more

By Ellyn

Jan 3, 2017

This course helped me immensely with API fundamentals that I always wanted to know about. It is the beginning of greater things. Thank you Dr. Chuck!

By Kevin O

Aug 15, 2016

Assignments could be a little more difficult and not exactly like examples. Still a great course and I learned a lot about retrieving data from urls.

By PAMARTHI K

Sep 25, 2020

In this course I learn JSON, HTML, and how to access the data from the Websites Thank you very much dear Coursera Team for giving this opportunities

By Yousef K

Apr 2, 2020

It was really great and it taught me more real-world applications than the previous 2 courses (which was a given since those were beginner courses).

By Jason K

Mar 27, 2018

Great course with a refresher on networking. Dr. Chuck is splendidly understandable and explains concepts that even a layperson could easily absorb.

By Katona S

Jul 9, 2017

The course covered usefull applications and methodes to access web data. My only problem was that while I was doing it, it was switched to python 3.

By Alessandro

Jan 5, 2016

It is a very good course with book. The only think is I would like to have a more complex exercises. Most of them are just to modify some given code

By Justin M

Nov 7, 2022

Dr. Severence does an amazing job breaking down a lot of the concepts and the way you think about them. You really pick up a lot from this course!!