Web Scraping with Puppeteer

The course provided hands-on experience with web scraping using Puppeteer, covering dynamic content handling and error management.

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43 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

The course provided hands-on experience with web scraping using Puppeteer, covering dynamic content handling and error management.

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Course Overview

Puppeteer is a Node.js library for automating web browsers and extracting data from websites. In this course, you’ll learn how to harness the full potential of Puppeteer to scrape data from the web efficiently and effectively. You’ll start with an introduction to web scraping, covering the basics and its applications. Next, you’ll delve into Puppeteer fundamentals, including setup, web page navigation, and data extraction using selectors. Advanced concepts like handling pagination, scrolling, and authenti...Show More

What You'll Learn

An understanding of web scraping and its applications

Knowledge of Puppeteer from basics to advanced concepts

Familiarity with exporting scraped data to different formats

Hands-on experience with Puppeteer on real-world examples

The ability to debug and troubleshoot issues

An understanding of best practices in web scraping

What You'll Learn

An understanding of web scraping and its applications

Course Content

Introduction

This chapter gives you an overview of the web scraping course, including the course audience, prerequisites, objectives, strengths, and structure.

Course Overview

Introduction to the Course

Introduction to Web Scraping

This chapter covers web scraping’s importance, applications, understanding of website architecture and DOM, plus legal and ethical considerations.

What Is Web Scraping?Why Use Web Scraping?Get to Know the Website Architecture Legal and Ethical Considerations Quiz: Introduction to Web Scraping

Puppeteer Fundamentals

This chapter teaches Puppeteer fundamentals, including project setup, selectors, JS execution, request interception, and debugging—all with coding examples.

Introduction to Puppeteer Structure of a Puppeteer Project Navigate to a Web Page Selectors Evaluate JavaScript Request Interception Debug Issues Challenge: Puppeteer Fundamentals Quiz: Puppeteer Fundamentals

Advanced Concepts

This chapter teaches you how to use Puppeteer to handle URL parameters, pagination, infinite scrolling, login/authentication, captchas, and security measures.

Handle URL parameters Use of Pagination Handle Infinite Scrolling Login and Authentication Captchas and Other Security Measures Challenge: Advanced Concepts Quiz: Advanced Concepts

Storing Scraped Data

This chapter covers storing scraped data in JSON and CSV formats, taking screenshots, exporting to PDF with Puppeteer, and saving data to a database.

Store Scraped Data in JSON Format Store Scraped Data in CSV Format Take Screenshots with Puppeteer Export to PDF with Puppeteer Exporting Data to a Database Quiz: Storing Scraped Data

Scraping a Book Store

8 Lessons

This chapter guides in scraping a bookstore, covering site navigation, extracting categories, book details, and images, and includes quotes scraping challenge.

Best Practices for Web Scraping

2 Lessons

This chapter covers handling dynamic content with waits, using proper selectors, and managing errors with try-catch, timeouts, and ignoring specific errors.

Conclusion

4 Lessons

This chapter recaps key web scraping concepts, offers resources for further learning, explores future directions, and concludes the course.

Course Author

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