Web Scraping Financial News using Python 3 – Free Udemy Courses

Why this course?

We often have plenty of



unstructured data



available for



free



on the internet. Some of this data may be useful for combining with other structured or unstructured data available in the organization. What if I could



fetch



the desired unstructured data from web,



transform



it into structured format, and



combine



it with my other data,



preprocess



combined data, so that I can



extract valuable insights



to facilitate



quick



and



better





data-driven decision making



?

Good news is that there are some techniques such as



Web Scraping



which can help us



solve the problem



of



data gathering





at scale



and



build curated datasets



. In this course we will help you achieve this



goal



. Following are our



Learning Objectives



for this course.

• Automate the process of gathering unstructured data which is in the form of raw HTML.
• Learn to web scrap Financial News of specific listed companies on the Stock Market.
• Use
  
  
  
  BeautifulSoup4
  
  
  
  Python library for web scraping – Install, Exception Handling, Advanced HTML Parsing.
• How to traverse a single domain to fetch data from many HTML pages.
• Process gathered (scrapped) data and transform it into structured format JSON and save as CSV.

In this course we are giving you



hands-on experience



of how to



build



and



automate



process of



generating curated dataset



from raw HTML text, scraped from web.