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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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AG

Sep 12, 2017

The course teaches the basics of how to interact with the internet using Python. The course is simple, well explained, has great interviews with people who were part of the creation of the internet.

HO

Jan 28, 2016

Dr. Chuck is so skilled at teaching. His teaching style and presentations are easy to follow. The class is not as challenging as other Python courses, but it's a great step to learning Python well.

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By Jiahao T

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Jun 8, 2020

Would like to see more challenging assignments

By Divyesh T

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Jun 5, 2020

Th best course to understand websites and APIs

By Muhammad A

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Jun 2, 2020

A nice concise demo on how to access web data!

By KOVVURI S R

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Jun 1, 2020

the course is hard but the videos make it easy

By NATCHIMUTHU.N

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May 22, 2020

Excellent instructor. Very useful assignments.

By Tejas K

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May 8, 2020

excellent,perfect pretty awesome 💯💯💯💯💯💯

By José N

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May 5, 2020

Great to learn web services topics with Python

By Mariano O

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May 3, 2020

Excellent curse to expand the Python knowladge

By Aaryan G

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Apr 25, 2020

interesting course but it can be much detailed

By nilkanth k

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Apr 9, 2020

Course was very awesome and easy to understand

By Robb C

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Mar 23, 2020

The difficulty ratchets up, but in a good way!

By James M S

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Mar 11, 2020

Great course to get used to accessing web data

By pantakarn p

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Jan 22, 2020

Very helpful for a package that I have learned

By Javier B E

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Dec 23, 2019

thank you chuck, we need more courses from you

By SHIVAM K

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Nov 7, 2019

This was a great learning in python as a whole

By Prince S

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Oct 23, 2019

This is the best course for learning web data.

By Konstantin K

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Oct 16, 2019

Amazing course as it is always from Dr. Chuck!

By Bugu W

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Sep 3, 2019

a little bit challenging but also interesting!

By Desiree W

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Jul 28, 2019

Great introduction to web scraping with Python

By Jose P

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May 23, 2019

Love Coursera Best Online training system ever

By Valerie A

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Feb 5, 2019

This entire specialization has been fantastic.

By David S D

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May 30, 2018

Very good overview of using Python on the web.

By Dan P

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Sep 7, 2017

Nice and easy, good for getting one's feet wet

By Ifeanyichukwu H N

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Aug 19, 2017

Remains Informative, Interesting and Practical

By Pradeep S

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May 2, 2017

Super Course. Helped me lot with web scraping.