Summary Intermediate importing data in Python

Importing flat file
from the web
I N T E R M E D I AT E I M P O R T I N G D ATA I N P Y




Hugo Bowne-Anderson
Data Scientist at DataCamp

,You’re already great at importing!
Flat les such as .txt and .csv

Pickled les, Excel spreadsheets, and many others!

Data from relational databases

You can do all these locally

What if your data is online?

,Can you import web data?




You can: go to URL and click to download les

BUT: not reproducible, not scalable

, You’ll learn how to…
Import and locally save datasets from the web

Load datasets into pandas DataFrames

Make HTTP requests (GET requests)

Scrape web data such as HTML

Parse HTML into useful data (BeautifulSoup)

Use the urllib and requests packages