Web Scraping Fundamentals
Learn the core concepts, tools, and techniques for extracting data from websites — from HTTP basics to handling JavaScript-rendered content.
Track Overview
Track Summary
Building Your First Web Scraper with Python
A step-by-step guide to building a working web scraper from scratch using Python, Requests, and BeautifulSoup. No prior scraping experience required.
Scrapy vs BeautifulSoup: Choosing the Right Python Scraping Tool
A hands-on comparison of Scrapy and BeautifulSoup with real code examples, architecture diagrams, performance benchmarks, and a decision framework to pick the right tool for your project.
Other Tracks
Ethical & Legal Compliance
Stay on the right side of the law when scraping — robots.txt, rate limiting, terms of service, and data privacy.
Scraper Reliability & Observability
Build reliable scraping systems that detect failures automatically — data validation, structural change detection, failure classification, and production monitoring with ScraperGuard.