Ratings and Reviews for Using Python to Access Web Data

DrChuck explains everything in great detail and knows his stuff very well. He adds interviews with true legends in the history of computer science. And it is fun!

kk

a very good course :}

Enjoyable and helpful.

Excellent course, i like it a lot

This course was confused and jumbled. Dr chuck tries to explain too much in just 6 weeks and the result is a lot of confused students.

Very useful

Thank you!

This module is where the Python for Everybody specialization kind of goes off the rails. It starts off good with RegEx, and probably could have dedicated another week to it, as I found it really interesting. Once it gets into networks and sockets, it's still interesting, but it starts to become less about Python and more about broader, big picture stuff. But there is still a lot of coding involved, and the lectures are very good. However, by the end of the module, the assignments become less about coding and more about the big picture things that the code can do. The assignments become more about copy-pasting the already written code and tweaking one or two things about it than actually writing code an learning python. The instructor is obviously very knowledgeable and the lectures are easy to follow along with. But by the end of this module the material offered up is just too broad, and there's not a lot to do in the assignments.

Introduces how to connect to the internet using sockets for our knowledge. Then shows we have a better way of using the urllib in Python. Teaches us how to read data from websites including HTTP and HTTPS. We first use regular expressions to get the data we want, but these are too difficult and we stop using them later, especially with HTML as they are unpredicted. We then switch XML and BeautifulSoup deal with HTML websites. We eventually get to json and how it makes our life much easier, albeit XML can sometimes be required sometimes. Then we go through parsing and looking for certain data on API.