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Python Regular Expressions with Data Scraping Projects

Gain insights into Python's regular expressions with practical examples, web scraping projects, coding exercises, and beginner-friendly lectures. Delve into real-world data and enhance your Python skills effectively.

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Regex with Python? Many of you do not find this combination easy, which partly happens because of the Python's obfuscated regex documentation too! In this course, to make your life easy, I have used some real-world examples. The goals are: - Teach you how to use the Python regular expressions (re) module and relevant functions by running interactive examples; - Educate you to deal with projects with real world data examples (e.g., pdf and web scraping, more coming soon!); - Challenge you with coding exerc...Show More

Regex with Python? Many of you do not find this combination easy, which partly happens because of the Python's obfuscated regex ...Show More

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Introduction

3 Lessons

Get familiar with Python's RegEx patterns, re module methods, and practical applications.

Introduction

Python Regular Expression Patterns List

Quiz # 1 - REGEX Patterns

Python Regular Expressions Funtions

12 Lessons

Get started with Python regex functions for matching, searching, and manipulating strings.

Python regex `match` function

Python Regex Match ( ) function - Coding exercise

Python regex `search` function

Python Regex search ( ) function - Coding exercise

Python regex `match` vs. `search` functions

Python regex `group` functions

Python regex `sub` function for search and replace

Python regex `split` function

Python regex `findall` function

Python regex `compile` function

Python regex `finditer` function

Quiz # 2 Python REGEX Functions

Python Regex - Look ahead and Look behind

3 Lessons

Explore lookahead and lookbehind regex for precise pattern matching in Python.

Basics

Python Lookahead

Python Lookbehind

Python Lazy and Greedy Search

1 Lessons

Find out about greedy and non-greedy matching for precise pattern recognition.

Greedy/Non-Greedy Matching

Python Regex by Examples

5 Lessons

Solve problems in Python using regex for DNA analysis, data parsing, and web scraping.

Project 1: Fun with DNA (REGEX Lookaround)!

Project 2: Parsing data from a HTML file with Python and REGEX

Project 3: PDF scraping in Python + REGEX

Project 4: Web scraping in Python + REGEX

Project 5: Amazon web crawling in Python + REGEX

References

1 Lessons

Investigate Python resources to enhance your understanding of regular expressions.

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