We are going to learn Webscraping using google chrome and it will be done using selenium library.

• Learn how to download selenium and browser drivers to first initially do the setup.
• How work with attributes like name, id using findelement methods.
• How to work with tags like A tag and its attribute href to click on the links.
• How to use class attribute and is it a good approach to use class attribute.
• how to work with Xpath to insert the data into textboxes and click on search buttons. Not just use but understand the structure of Xpath as well.
• Learn how we can change the xpath elements by their indexes.
• How to work with header tags like h1 or h2 or h3 using normal way and using xpath.
• How to run the collection loops and why we need it and when we can avoid using collection loops.
• What is difference between Web-element and Webelements and why we use set word for collection elements and not for single object.
• How to click on links on webpage using link -text and partial link text property. Based on this knowledge one mini project -how to load website by default on current date.
• How to scrape tables and its rows and rows data values and table headers.
• Collection loops design and execution from very start while working with tables.
• Do you like to export all tables in a website or do you want to scrape one specific table only, How to reach out to specific index of a table then.
• How to scrape specific rows inside one specific table . Know your “tr’ tags.
• How to scrape all data insider rows or just one specific data value using td tag. Its awesome when you have so much control.
• How to export tables with out running collection loops and what is the difference between direct export and export using loops. You must know.
• How to work with li tags inside unordered and ordered lists.
• Know how to insert a value in drop down or combo-boxes .
• How to select items in list box with single select property or multi select property.
• Learn to select or de-select listbox options using collection loops or without the loops.
• How to alter the collection elements by referring to one object and second inside the first one and so on.
• Students will learn how to download the files
• How to add or manage Cookies of a website and how to use it in a practical situation.
• How to take screenshots and save those on desktop or export them in excel.
• How to launch website new pages in a new window tabs.
• Move from first window to second and so on. Challenges and more robust solutions to handle the window tabs.
• You will see one of the real data based project which is super duper awesome from learning and getting confidence on webscraping.
• We will see how to login to website and how to sort out captcha issues by simply letting code to wait for sometime till user enters captcha.
• We will revise our learning in part1 as to how to practically use links using elementbyid, name or class attributes . Also, the best use of Xpath.
• if page refreshes for a long time or uncertain , how to put a wait time.
• You will see the use of magnificent loops and IF Conditions on this project . How smartly we have used the loops and IF Conditions and clicking on elements.
• In this project you shall see how to fully control the website elements like drop downs or a tags from excel lists which are written on sheets.