APIs & Web Scraping for AI
Fetch data from APIs and scrape the web for AI training and applications. APIs and web scraping are essential for building AI systems that use real-world data.
Level: Beginner · Category: Data Science · Estimated time: 6 hours
Prerequisites
- Python for AI
Lessons
- REST APIs Fundamentals — HTTP methods, status codes, JSON, and API structure.
- Python requests Library — GET, POST, headers, authentication, and error handling.
- Parsing JSON & Pagination — Handling JSON responses, pagination, and rate limiting.
- Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup — HTML parsing, selectors, and extracting data.
- Handling Dynamic Content — Selenium, Playwright, and JavaScript-rendered pages.
- Scrapy for Large-Scale Scraping — Spiders, pipelines, and scaling web scraping.
- Ethics & Legal Considerations — robots.txt, terms of service, and responsible scraping.
Topics covered
apis, web-scraping, requests, beautifulsoup, data-acquisition