Hello, and welcome to Scraping Web Media.
My name is Allen O'Neill, and I am your instructor for this course.
In this course,
you will learn about scraping web media. Scraping web
media can be different from other forms of web scraping
and present different challenges.
This course is designed to help you understand more about web media and
to learn the skills necessary to scrape it successfully. In our first
module, we are going to outline the differences in scraping web media and
other primarily text‑based files.
We will look at different types of web media and discover why it
is different from other forms of web data.
Web media is unique in that some forms of it can be extremely large in size,
consuming vast amounts of both bandwidth and storage.
We'll look at why this is on discuss the best way
to deal with large media files.
Finally,
in this section, we will look at some of the different
technologies we can use to acquire media data.