Finalize the Web scraping basics for Python devs course

[honzajavorek]

Missing lessons:

• DevTools 1: The Phantom Menace feat: first lesson about DevTools #1316
• DevTools 2: Attack of the Clones feat: second lesson about DevTools #1317
• DevTools 3: Revenge of the Sith feat: third lesson about DevTools #1321
• Using a framework feat: lesson about using a framework #1303
• Using a platform feat: add lesson about using the platform #1424, feat: add lesson about using the platform (with webp images) #1556

What else needs to be done:

• Unify tags and elements - in the Python lessons there's "Our code lists all <h1> tags", in the DevTools it's more like "a element" fix: various improvements to the Python course (consistency etc.) #1558
• DevTools 1 and 2: Product name vs product title fix: various improvements to the Python course (consistency etc.) #1558
• THAT LESSON in sentence "We will show you how scraping platforms can simplify your life, but those lessons are optional and designed to fit within our free tier." fix: various improvements to the Python course (consistency etc.) #1558
• Web scraping basics courses: Correct a screenshot, remove notes #1417, feat: improve two images in the Python course #1559
• Provide a nicer, higher-resolution image here:

  apify-docs/sources/academy/webscraping/scraping_basics_python/index.md

  Line 24 in 1abc0ee

  TODO image of warehouse with some CVS or JSON exported, similar to sources/academy/webscraping/scraping_basics_javascript/images/beginners-data-collection.png, which is for some reason the same as sources/academy/webscraping/scraping_basics_javascript/images/beginners-data-extraction.png

  feat: improve two images in the Python course #1559
• Final reading, make the course coherent in style, admonitions, etc.
  • Unify WE vs YOU. I think the lesson should be WE, and the exercises should be YOU.
  • Make super sure the transition from DevTools to Python is smooth (codename: Star Wars prequel trilogy problem)
  • Add info about how what you see in DevTools is NOT what you get in Python unless you spin up a browser
• verify exercise at academy/scraping-basics-python/parsing-html (comment reporting its broken)
• Reconsider adding type hints, at least for context in the framework lesson feat: lesson about using a framework #1303 (review), feat: add type hints #1562
• Make the Python course more prominent in the Academy menu and homepage

Future considerations (unordered):

• Add a final exercise which will interact with the datasets using the SDK (see below)
• Rename the JavaScript course to "Web scraping basics for JavaScript devs" feat: rename the JS course #1551
• Try removing sidebar position to have cleaner front matter Inferring "sidebar_position" from the filename #1247, chore: infer 'sidebar_position' from the filename #1557
• Test Python course code examples #1243

Final exercise:

• single final exercise: build an app to analyze data from several runs, e.g. print price trend of a certain product (sony subwoofer?)

Code

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## Exercises

The final challenge of this course is about interacting with your scraper programmatically using the Apify SDK.

:::danger Work in progress

This course is incomplete. As we work on adding new lessons, we would love to hear your feedback. You can comment right here under each page or [file a GitHub Issue](https://github.com/apify/apify-docs/issues) to discuss a problem.

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