The web is full of incredibly powerful data stored away in billions of different websites, databases and APIs. Financial data like stock prices and cryptocurrency trends, weather data in thousands of different cities in dozens of countries offered down to the hour, and fun biographical information about your favorite actor or actress: all of this information is at your fingertips, but it's impossible to truly harness it all without a bit of help and automation!

Scrapers and spiders are incredibly powerful programs that allow developers, big data analysts and researchers to harness all of this amazing data and use it for a vast array of different applications, from the creation of data feeds to the collection of data to feed machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms. This course offers a hands-on approach to building real, usable spiders in realistic situations for financial analysis, link graph construction and social media research, to name a few. By the end of this course, the student will be able to develop spiders and scrapers from scratch using Python and will only be limited by their own imagination. Put the vast power of the internet within your grasp by learning how to develop automated scrapers today!

This class is built with beginners in mind, and while previous experience in Python programming helps, you can start this course without ever having written a line of code.