During this course, you will: 

• learn how to collect data from the web using web scraping;
• gain the necessary insight in HTTP traffic; 
• learn how to scrape static and dynamic web pages; 
• get acquainted with specialised Python libraries, such as Requests and Beautiful Soup.

• Introduction to web traffic and HTTP
• Extracting data from HTML documents
• Dealing with dynamic web content, CSS and JavaScript
• Web scraping tools - Python libraries
  • Requests
  • Beautiful Soup
  • Scrapy
  • Selenium
• Automating a web scraping workflow
• The rules, ethics and limitations of web scraping

Classroom training with demos and practical exercises.

Delivered as a live, interactive training: available in-person or online, or in a hybrid format. Training can be implemented in English, Dutch, or French.

Participants should be familiar with basic Python syntax (see Python fundamentals course).

This course is aimed at whoever wants to obtain data using web scraping: data analysts, application developers, auditors ...