Week 6: HTTP, APIs & Web Scraping

requests library, REST APIs, JSON handling, BeautifulSoup, ethics

📌 Strategy & Study Guidance

Focus on hands-on coding. Allocate 2 blocks daily: concept review + practice.

Blocks

Block 51 Monday

HTTP Basics & GET Requests

 Block 52 Monday

Query Parameters & Headers

 Block 53 Tuesday

Parsing JSON into pandas

 Block 54 Tuesday

Rate Limiting & Robustness

 Block 55 Wednesday

BeautifulSoup: HTML Parsing Basics

 Block 56 Wednesday

Scraping Tables & Building DataFrames

 Block 57 Thursday

Ethical Scraping & robots.txt

 Block 58 Thursday

Saving & Processing Scraped Data

 Block 59 Friday

API + pandas Mini-Dashboard

 Block 60 Friday

Mini-Project: API-Based Mini Dataset

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📋 Cheat Sheets

Quick Reference

Core syntax and common patterns for this week. Week 6 - requests library, REST APIs, JSON handling, BeautifulSoup, ethics

API Cheat Sheet

Key functions and methods. Week 6 - requests library, REST APIs, JSON handling, BeautifulSoup, ethics

Best Practices

Style and performance tips. Week 6 - requests library, REST APIs, JSON handling, BeautifulSoup, ethics

💻 Code Snippets

Basic Example

# Week 6: HTTP, APIs & Web Scraping
# Basic pattern for this topic
result = process(data)

Common Pattern

# Week 6: HTTP, APIs & Web Scraping
# Frequently used pattern

Quick Start

# Week 6: HTTP, APIs & Web Scraping
# Minimal working example

📊 Visualizations & Diagrams

Concept Diagram

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  A[Input] --> B[Process]
  B --> C[Output]

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Workflow

Step 1 -> Step 2 -> Step 3

Assessment

📝 Week 6 Assessment (Practice + AI Analysis)