Scrapy : Python Web Scraping & Crawling for Beginners (Udemy.com)

Great course for beginner web crawling, scraping using Python and Scrapy. You can learn many things from this course that have not been covered in university lectures or courses coming from a computer science background to supplement knowledge gabs.

The outline is good; however, replies from the instructor are not made in a timely manner. Additionally, the code does not work. Perhaps it is me or perhaps the course is not updated with the scrapy software.

This is the best of the courses I have seen on web scraping. How the tutor explains xpath and css selector configuration and identification using selectorgadget is worth its weight in gold and advanced by capacity so much

Good class. Brief, but covers most of the essentials. I wish he had covered the file scraping capabilities. Definitely enough to get up and running. The code is barely readable on some portions because of the IDE's dark theme.

Great overview of using scrapy to scrape websites. Nice bite sized videos and focus on just learning the basics enough to get your hands dirty. Could use more elaboration or at least point in the direction for finding more information on using scrapy in more elaborate ways since this is barely scratching the surface. But hey these are great tutorials and kudos to the developer for making such an easy to understand class on Crawling for beginners. P.s. would rather have had a short section on using beautifulSoup or other methods for getting info off the web than the bonus section on OOP and inheritance. That's just me.

This course is filled with good and useful information and it is delivered in bite sized tutorials. There is a strong weight on practical teaching, but there is more than enough theory, to get you to where you want to go.

Yes because I am a python beginner too and this showed me how to install IDE PyCharm and also talks about tools like GadgetSelector, MongoDB, SQLite not just scrapy like the scrapy tutorial would just do. Just sometimes doesn't go as far as I would like in the depth. Maybe some links / reference to more details would be great. By example I didn't use "sqliteonline.com" but instead installed DB Connector in PyCharm which seems to make more sense.

I had major issues getting Scrapy to install on my windows 10 machine. My investigations online led to me installing Microsoft visual C++ 14.0, then the problem changes to can not found io.h file. It was frustrating. I abandoned the windows environment and went to GoormIDE a cloud based ubuntu platform. So far I'm ok with the course. This is a good beginners' course for Web Scraping. I was able to complete this cause using GoormIDE environment. The Amazon scraping codes worked with little tweaks compared to PyCharm IDE environment the instructor used. This was my second course by this instructor, I like his style of teaching, he makes it easier for me to understand. Getting the Amazon project to work using GoormIDE Ubuntu environment was harder than I expected. I'll like for the instructor to make his notes available to the students so that we can use the notes to follow along. If his notes are available, how do we access them?

I picked this course over competition since it uses PyCharm and I I can easily download everything I need through this IDE, and not spend an hour or more downloading different software to my computer and lining it all up. The speaker has a great voice tone and inflection, he sounds happy about doing the course and won't put you to sleep, but I need to pay very close attention or I'll miss what he said due to his accent. This might actually be a plus to keep me from daydreaming, but he goes step-by-step on his screen and is easy to follow along. So far I like it a lot.

Hi Bhatt, I would like to thank you for a great course. I rally like your practical approach. It could be out of scope, but I will have a suggestion for additional Scrapy application : As you know some Python modules have only online documentation. It will be nice to produce one pdf document for it. For example: https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide.html How to produce pdf document for Bokeh User Guide? Regards. Vesko