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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.

ML

Jun 16, 2017

Excellent course with in depth explanations. It is well structured. It learn to access Web Data from very basics to optimum level. It help me to understand details of using Python to Access Web Data.

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By Shaghayegh S

Apr 15, 2022

This is one of the most useful courses I passed in Coursera. It gives you enough information to get the job done. Not too much and not too little.

By Nicole M

May 3, 2022

All around, not as easy as previous courses, but the reference material and quizes/assignments were interesting and helpful.

By Abdullah H

May 3, 2022

Wonderful Course on Web access with python. I must admire the wonderful learning skills of Dr. Chuck

By Alejandro V R

Apr 18, 2022

this course scaled up my ability with python and my understanding of the basics

By 2039 T M

May 6, 2022

Very beautiful and probably the toughest one till now in the 5 series

By Prajanand k

Jan 30, 2021

Using Python to Access Web Data of good coursed of python skil

By Elmer R M

Apr 19, 2022

Very good for start learning how to access data using Python

By p0tat0mam

Apr 30, 2022

very usefull ,requier hard work,very intersting

By Miguel H F

Apr 29, 2022

estupendo para seguir profundizando en python.

By Cabdiqani C M

Apr 14, 2022

This Course Is Absolutely Outstanding

By Александр В

May 10, 2022

Хороший курс, Спасибо

By Ayush B

Apr 11, 2022

wonderful course

By Nima f

Apr 6, 2022

Very Good

By Chandan B

May 8, 2022

so happy

By Navya M

Apr 20, 2022

good

By qixiu j

Apr 13, 2022

good

By Wisa L

Apr 8, 2022

GOOD

By 1441-RAHUL S

Apr 8, 2022

nice

By Ayatullah K

Nov 19, 2020

The first two courses needed to completed this course successfully.

I have previous experienced of programming with c++ and javascript. So this wasn't

difficult to me. However, I have learned a lot of about web services. How to retrieve

web data with python and manipulate them. From week 1 to week 4 was, how can you

retrieve web pages, how to request a server and get back web data using some python

libraries like urllib(a python library to retrieve web page). Overall, for the assignments

you have to know programming logic a little bit. After retrieve web pages you need to work

with data. So you have to know conditon, loop, list, dict etc. All the assignments of this

course is calculate sum or count of a list of data.

The last two weeks you will get familiar with xml and json. These two is the communication system for

service provider and consumer. How easy they communicate and exchange their data.

It uses for the service oriented approach mostly.

By Leonoor K

Aug 11, 2022

Solid course, just like the first two. Level clearly increases from the basics, you gotta use everything you've learned so far. A shame that some of the google API content discussed has become less relevant/useful now that google has moved the data behind a paywall.

4 instead of 5 because of unclear discussion of "REST" in the final week. It isn't discussed in the actual lecture videos or discussed in the book, yet is brought up in the quiz. Repeated confused questions in the the discussion board (plenty of which are years old at this point) have not changed this.

A big shame that the staff in the discussion often seems frustrated with the students, making their answers less than helpful, even rude. Perhaps the team is too small or the workload to heavy? Given the price of coursera I would expect better.

By Ana B

May 26, 2023

I love Dr Severance and enjoyed the two previous courses, but in this third one I found the assignments particularly challenging with some disconnection between the examples in the slides and what was expected from our side. In any case, I don't want to discourage anyone from taking these courses because I still find they are fantastic.

By Agustín D L S

May 7, 2023

Really good course. I learnt a lot of new things.

Just a comment: The second assigment in which you need to use the Beatiful Soup library seems to be very challenger according to what you see in the lectures. Maybe you should add a copple additional lessons on that topic to better explain how it works.

Thanks and regards.

By Praise B

Nov 17, 2022

I feel like it was rushed and some things were not properly explained to us(import statement, beautifulsoup, etc, but that's what youtube is for, right? ) it is a good course and I'm glad i took part in it, Thank you Coursera and Thank you Dr Chuck

By Jasper L

Apr 22, 2022

Love you Dr. Chuck, your course is amazing. But I think I do not quite understand some of the sophisticated terms like serialization. If you can add some analogies it would be perfect!

By Bhuwanesh N

Jul 19, 2020

This course is very good except the API part. I think they must upgrade this part and elaborate this concept.