In this course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of collecting data by accessing APIs and scraping the web. A data analyst or data scientist doesn’t always get the data they need in a CSV file or via an easily accessible database. Sometimes, you’ve got to go out and get the data you need. By the end of this course you’ll know how to extract data via APIs or web scraping.
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In this course, you’ll learn how to access APIs, including how to create and process API requests; how to deal with data in the JSON format using Python and pandas; and how to handle advanced requests such as POST, PUT/PATCH, and DELETE. You’ll apply your new API skills by working with the Reddit API to perform real-world data analysis.
You’ll also learn web scraping using Python, Beautiful Soup, and the requests library. This includes requesting and downloading a website’s HTML content; retrieving specific elements from the page using BeautifulSoup; using Find All, IDs, and Classes to extract specific parts of a page; and using CSS selectors.
Querying external data sources using an API
Scraping datasets from the web
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