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Software Development
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Using Python to Access Web Data
Coursera
Platform
· California, USA
About this course
This beginner-level course from the University of Michigan shows how to treat the Internet as a source of data using Python. You will learn to scrape, parse, and read web data, and access data using web APIs. The course covers working with HTML, XML, and JSON formats, regular expressions, network protocols, and web services, corresponding to chapters 11–13 of the "Python for Everybody" textbook. It is part of the Python for Everybody Specialization and uses Python 3.
Prerequisite Skills
Skills you should have before taking this course
Python Basics
Variables and Expressions
Conditional Execution and Loops
Python Data Structures
File Handling in Python
Skills Gained
Skills you will develop by completing this course
Python Programming
Web Scraping
Data Access
Web Services
Network Protocols
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
JSON