Build a Web Scraper in Python

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Use Python to build a web crawler that scrapes pages. It's a tool that any SEO expert would be happy to have. You'll make HTTP requests and parse HTML to generate reports that can easily marshaled to standard output or a file. If you're interested in getting a job doing data analysis, this project will teach you how Python can be used to build a command-line application.

Syllabus

Setup — Get started with web scraping by setting up your Python environment and building essential functions to normalize URLs and extract links from HTML content.
Crawling — Build the core crawling engine by implementing the main crawler logic, HTTP request handling, and recursive page discovery to systematically traverse websites.
Concurrency — Learn to speed up your web crawler using asynchronous programming and concurrency, crawling multiple pages simultaneously while respecting configurable limits.
Reporting — Learn to analyze and export your web scraping results with custom reporting tools that generate both human-readable summaries and JSON datasets for further analysis.

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