Web Scraping for Beginners – Extract Data with an API // TRAIN BRAIN

Web Scraping for Beginners – Extract Data with an API

Learn how web scraping can be utilized for tasks like market research, SEO tracking, and data collection. She will demonstrate how to bypass common obstacles like CAPTCHAs, rate limits, and bot detection by leveraging an efficient API. By the end, you'll learn how to build a simple, effective scraper that extracts structured data for your own projects.
? Check out SerpApi here: https://serpapi.com/google-short-videos-api?utm_source=freecodecamp
? Github link: https://github.com/kubowania/video-downloader
?️ SerpApi for providing a grant to make this course possible.
Course developed by @aniakubow
⭐️ Contents ⭐️
– 0:00:00 Introduction to Web Scraping
– 0:01:58 Getting Started with SER API
– 0:03:54 First API Search Test
– 0:05:14 Setting Up the Project
– 0:06:59 Installing Packages and Project Configuration
– 0:08:15 Configuring Search Parameters
– 1:05:04 Exploring Advanced Search Parameters
– 1:14:35 Scraping Short Videos (Instagram, YouTube)
– 1:16:40 Using Google Lens API
– 1:18:32 Building a Project: Short Video Scraper
– 1:19:40 Back End Development
– 1:28:20 Creating the Front End (HTML, CSS, App.js)
– 1:37:09 Implementing the Search Functionality
– 1:46:16 Setting Up Video Downloads with YT-DLP
– 1:56:48 Implementing the "Download All" Functionality
– 1:00:14 Securing the API Key with Environment Variables

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