Hey everyone.
This is Pratheerth, nd welcome to my course,
Advanced Web Scraping Tactics: Python Playbook.
These days, as I'm sure you must have experienced, data is everything.
Your health data is tracked to give appropriate
health recommendations and alerts,
your personal data is collected to serve you ads,
your TV and online viewing data is collected to recommend movies,
TV shows, and videos that you might better enjoy.
You get the idea. If you're a data analyst or data scientist,
when you decide to embark on a project,
there are many methods through which you can collect data,
and web scraping is one of the big ones.
The entire course is broadly divided into three sections.
The first module, which is this one, is called Introducing Advanced Web
Scraping and Handling Form Submissions. In this, we'll be dipping our
toe into the world of advanced web scraping, and then we'll move on to
dealing with form submissions.
In the second module, we'll be learning how to deal
with cookies and button input values.
And lastly, we talk about uploading files to a web page. Let's look
at what is in store for us in the first module. We'll talk briefly
on what constitutes basic web scraping.
This will help appreciate the difference between that and advanced web
scraping for which we'll have a more detailed introduction next.
This will help you get a better overview on the topics that will
be covered during the course. And then, we'll have extensive demos
on handling both GET and POST forms.