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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 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.

By Deepak K

Apr 29, 2019

Excellent course. The instructor is very good and explains each and every concept in a crystal clear way. I learned a lot from this course.

By David R

Sep 25, 2018

I really enjoyed this class and it covered a lot of material in regards to web programming. I learned a lot that I am already using daily.

By Shiyu D

Feb 9, 2018

Love Dr.Chunk! But find it little hard for me to understand those Internet things. Recommend to take some basic courses about the Internet.

By Jixin F

Dec 4, 2015

very fun course to learn, a slightly advanced level course after this(doesn't matter included in this specialization or not) will be great!

By Lucas V

Nov 21, 2015

Dr Chuck rock the MOOC ball, yes he does. This course is fantastic to get a hand on what actually is to "connect over the internet". Do it!

By Daniel C

Nov 14, 2015

Another in an excellent series of Python courses. Thanks for making the videos shorter, it's hard to download stuff here in Southeast Asia.

By Hyeongkyun K K

Feb 4, 2021

Awesome course!

I can cope with several practicing examples and it makes me getting confident in Python Programming and Web data accessing.

By Nimrat A

Jul 19, 2020

This course is were things start to get a little complicated. It is a perfect course for learning the basics of web scraping using python.

By Shivoy D

Jun 1, 2020

Great support from the moderators. I am in love with this course. Wasn't so excited in the beginning but now i simply love the curriculum.

By Deepa

Jun 20, 2018

The course is fantastic. Its a great course for anyone starting to learn web services. Detailed code walkthrough on how to parse xml/json.

By Sophie X W

Mar 20, 2018

Awesome course!!! Web scraping on the go now. One tiny improvement would be great, to show how to do twitter/facebook/etc more in details.

By Chris D

Dec 15, 2015

Dr Chuck takes you step by step through the process of accessing data from web pages and services. Clear and detailed.

Everything you need.

By Lourdes G

Mar 18, 2024

muy bueno y didáctico, aunque a medida que se avance es un poco más difícil, el curso otorga las herramientas para resolver los problemas

By Dmitriy K

Oct 14, 2020

Excellent course, learned a lot of new things! It was a bit difficult, I will return to this course to consolidate the training material!

By RohanGoindi

Aug 30, 2020

Excellently structured course. Gives an overview of all important concepts. Practice alongside this course will be definitely beneficial.

By PUSHPENDRA D

Aug 10, 2020

Its perfect course although it looks tough but its what we need to know if somebody is into web data I'll

definately recommend him or her