Using Python to Access Web Data

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 expressi

• Use regular expressions to extract data from strings
• Understand protocols used by browsers to retrieve documents and web apps
• Retrieve data from websites and APIs using Python
• Work with XML data

• Basic Python programming and fundamental web concepts