Web Scraping in Python Selenium, Scrapy + ChatGPT Prize (Udemy.com)

Course gives a lot of basic knowledge but your use cases are outdated, so I had to find alternatives. Not sure if it counts as a course, luckily I have dev experience so the concepts weren't new. I am unfortunately left confused as to whether I would recommend it or not, also you rushed through everything not sure if that was to compress the material, but nonetheless it feels like working with someone with more experience than you and they tend to get irritated easily but the solution is only working for them.

I’m enjoying your course, but many parts of the Selenium section use older methods like find_element_by_xpath, which no longer work in the latest Selenium versions. Modern Selenium (2025–2026) uses the By class instead, such as driver.find_element(By.XPATH, ...). It would be very helpful if you could update the Selenium lessons with the new syntax, the current WebDriver setup, and the latest best practices. This will make the course more accurate and valuable for learners in 2025 and 2026. Thank you for your hard work, and I hope the updated content can be added soon!

633 / 5,000 This is a very good web scraping course. It covers three libraries that guide you through successful web scraping, and it also allows you to perform the same task by taking advantage of the versatility and unique features of each library. On the other hand, the instructor's approach to the lessons is quite long and easy to understand. However, this course is outdated, and if you're going to take it, you'll need to dedicate some extra time to successfully complete it. This may be a plus for some and a minus for others.

Overall, it's a really great class since I learn how to crawl data from different websites using different tools, The cases are real-life, and it's useful and all-sided. The class content teaches you in a logical way that you can learn tools from the simplest to the most difficult, and every step is logical, and you can simply learn how to crawl data and type the code by watching and practicing by following the video's path. However, some class content is outdated and needs time to figure out how it will run well in the latest version. And Section 17 is the only section I don't like at all, and that's the reason why I gave it four stars instead of five. It's really confusing and makes it feel like bed since I feel like I lose my mind and path after learning the scrapy and then turn around to learn the selenium unfinished content again. And section 17's example is weird since it's not consistent. After I learned how to log in, I should learn how to crawl infinite pages content after logging in instead of learning from a new page that how I can crawl infinite pages. If you follow the lesson's path in Section 17, you can't run well since it didn't tell you what you should do to scrape infinite pages after logging in.

The content is clear, at the right pace and useful. The only reason is not a full 5 stars, is that the PyCharm version available now is slightly different than the one used in the teaching material and it may take a little longer to find the button to click. A brief introduction to the PyCharm IDE could help, for those who are used to other IDE such as Jupyter notebook or Spider.

Frank is a good Teacher, he explained these topics very well because he covered the time needed for each topic depending on its usefulness, and the last section gave the necessary info on how to represent the already scraped data in a useful way.

Incredible course. I must confess that initially when I saw this course was 9 hours, I thought I would finish it in 2 days, but it took me over a week. But I'm glad I stuck until the end as I learned a LOT!. This course didn't go deep into XPath, so I had to buy another short course that focused only on Xpath and I practiced a lot until I had a better understanding. Once you understand how selecting elements with Xpath works, the rest of the course goes very smoothly.

Before taking this course, I did not have a lot of knowledge of web Scraping. This course covers many materials and methodologies how to scrap data/information from the web. One thing I really appreciate instructor Frank for that he helped me with some coding how to scrap some things like the number counts of Like, Reply and Retweet from users in Twitter. Thank you, Frank.

I've completed the course in about a week. This course is great if you want to learn the basics of web scraping, but it doesn't teach you how to get around proving that you are not a robot and redirects. Example: trying to scrape zillow.com using scrapy/splash doesn't work with just the knowledge form this course. It would also be nice to know the best practices when web scraping. Like what freelance web scrapers do to avoid getting blocked form a website and more. Overall this course is good if you are scraping websites that you don't have to bypass any checkpoints.

This was the third course on scraping I tried and the best one. I especially liked your guided explanations with regards xpaths and lua script, which was kind of not clear in other courses I tried. In fact your presentation was clear in every lesson and the course was well-structured, and because of that I did not run into any frustrations. I only thought you could've spoken up a little more.