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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 Sarah H H

Mar 7, 2019

really enjoyed this class. wish it went more into the technical aspects of all the code, but overall great intro!

By Ian S

May 2, 2018

Excellent course, great for getting a handle on how to reach out to the net for data and work with JSON, XML etc.

By Carlos E

Sep 26, 2017

Great content and exercises, for those looking on getting information from the web this is a good starting point.

By Ashish K

Sep 18, 2017

Awesome and quite a comprehensive course with the complex and important topics taught with much ease by Dr. Chuck

By Ji-Young K

Aug 14, 2016

I absolutely loved this course. I really enjoyed the course material and the instructor was always very engaging!

By Louis P

Feb 15, 2016

easy to follow course. I've learned so much following these, the increments in learning are manageable each week.

By Jaime O

Jan 26, 2021

Awesome!

I am extremely grateful to "Dr. Chuck" for his thorough, well-organized, fun and enthusiastic lectures.

By gabriel c

Sep 24, 2020

I have been very impressed with the ease of use and understanding that Dr. Chuck has been teaching in the videos

By wajahat a

Sep 21, 2020

An excellent course that looks deep into Web Scraping and XML plus JSON parsing as well as how to work with APIs

By DAHOU M

Sep 12, 2020

I got so many knowledge in this course thank you so much I had fun manipulating data with apis thank you so much

By Juan C J T

Jul 18, 2020

Excelente información por parte del Dr. Chuck en cuanto a la obtención de datos desde internet. Muchas gracias.

By Abhishek S

Jul 8, 2020

Very good course for intermediate level learner of python, gives practical & real world approach to use python .

By Anmol A

Jun 7, 2020

Nice and clear instructions. I learned a lot from this course. Just wanted it to use requests instead of urllib.

By Debaditya D

May 29, 2020

The course is very good. There are lots of new things to learn from this course. I enjoyed the course very much.

By CHETAN S S

May 23, 2020

A bit hard but worth learning and as always Dr chuck makes it so easy to learn. Thanks Dr Chuck and Coursera!!!

By Arpit S

May 20, 2020

Loved it, this course is the most amazing part, consists of both hard and easy part, but at the end i loved it.

By Sandeep B

Nov 27, 2019

Excellent source of learning python web scraping and web services with XML and JSON and also regular expressions

By Jairo W G M

Mar 24, 2019

This course you learn all about the data access whit Python. You can get data of files like JSON, XML or HTTP :3

By Paul L

Mar 24, 2018

Best course ever!!

I'm already using this knowledge at my current job.

There's no better Professor than Dr. Chuck!

By Fumin L

Jun 29, 2016

This course is both clear and essential, no rubbish-talking, I really like it. Thanks to Dr. Chuck and Coursera!

By Thomas

Jan 19, 2016

Dr. Charles seems like the coolest teacher ever. He also explains things in an understandable, yet, amusing way.

By MUGIRE F

Feb 25, 2023

All I got is to thank you for this effective course , it is my pleasure to keep learn from MICHIGAN university.

By Gabriela P

Oct 10, 2022

Loved this course! As a Python beginner, it was great to challenge myself and learn more on how to use Python.

By Fausto F d L

Jun 7, 2021

Really good! you will learn how to really gather info from the web, and use the main types of data (JSON, XML).

By German P

Jan 10, 2021

Very good course at general. Great Approach to APIs, XML and JSON, undestanding the role of each on an Web App.