Learn the Fundamentals of XPath and Selenium to Scrape the Data from the Web
InstructorDr. Alexander Schlee
Free
Free
Free
Editorial course preview
These 3 complementary views highlight concrete, legible examples from the course presentation.
This view displays the Yelp website interface showing search results for dentists in San Francisco, including detailed business profiles and a geographic map.
The browser displays a structured HTML table from the Pokédex website, showing columns for Name, Type, Total, HP, Attack, Defense, and Speed for various Pokémon.
This view displays a structured data table from the Pokédex website, listing various Pokémon species along with their elemental types and specific base statistical values.
The curriculum moves from XPath and Selenium basics into specific applications, such as extracting data from Yelp.com and processing Pokemon tables into Excel files.
Instruction covers various methods including Class Name, ID, and Link Text locators alongside absolute and relative XPath paths.
Learner signals suggest that video content and downloadable Python scripts are outdated, which may hinder the immediate usability of the provided resources.
One signal indicates that the instruction relies heavily on screen recordings with brief explanations, which may lack sufficient conceptual detail.
The curriculum aligns with the stated goals of learning Selenium and XPath for data extraction.