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Phase 6 · Python for Data Analysis

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Basic Web Scraping (Overview)

Part of the Data Analyst Roadmap.

Summary

Extracting data directly from web pages (using tools like BeautifulSoup) when no API is available — a fallback technique, and one to use carefully and ethically.

How to Learn This

  • 1Try a simple scraping tutorial on a page that explicitly allows it.
  • 2Learn to always check a site's robots.txt and terms of service before scraping.
  • 3Understand why an API (Phase 6's previous topic) is almost always preferable when available.

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Python Basics for AnalystsJupyter NotebooksPandas FundamentalsDataFrames & SeriesData Cleaning With PandasMerging & Joining DataFramesGroupBy & Aggregation in PandasNumPy BasicsMatplotlib & SeabornReading/Writing CSV, Excel & JSONWorking With APIs in Python
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