Merge pull request #452 from apify/advanced-scraping-course

docs: advanced-web-scraping course

Author: mstephen19

content/academy/advanced_web_scraping.md

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+title: Advanced web scraping
+description: Take your scrapers to the next level by learning various advanced concepts and techniques that will help you build highly scalable and reliable crawlers.
+menuWeight: 6
+category: web scraping & automation
+paths:
+- advanced-web-scraping
+---
+
+# Advanced web scraping
+
+In this course, we'll be tackling some of the most challenging and advanced web-scraping cases, such as mobile-app scraping, scraping sites with limited pagination, and handling large-scale cases where millions of items are scraped. Are **you** ready to take your scrapers to the next level?
+
+If you've managed to follow along with all of the courses prior to this one, then you're more than ready to take these upcoming lessons on 😎
+
+<!-- Just like the [**Web scraping for beginners**]({{@link web_scraping_for_beginners.md}}) course, this course is divided into two main sections: **Data collection** and **Crawling**. -->
+
+## [](#first-up) First up
+
+This course's [first lesson]({{@link advanced_web_scraping/scraping_paginated_sites.md}}) dives head-first into one of the most valuable skills you can have as a scraper developer: **Scraping paginated sites**.

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 title: Anti-scraping protections
 description: Understand the various anti-scraping measures different sites use to prevent bots from accessing them, and how to appear more human to fix these issues.
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-category: courses
+menuWeight: 4
+category: web scraping & automation
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 - anti-scraping
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 By definition, this is not an anti-scraping method, but it can heavily affect the reliability of a scraper. If your target website drastically changes its CSS selectors, and your scraper is heavily reliant on selectors, it could break. In principle, websites using this method change their HTML structure or CSS selectors randomly and frequently, making the parsing of the data harder, and requiring more maintenance of the bot.
 
-One of the best ways of avoiding the possible breaking of your scraper due to website structure changes is to limit your reliance on data from HTML elements as much as possible (see [API Scraping]({{@link api_scraping.md}}) and [JavaScript objects within HTML]({{@link js_in_html.md}}))
+One of the best ways of avoiding the possible breaking of your scraper due to website structure changes is to limit your reliance on data from HTML elements as much as possible (see [API Scraping]({{@link api_scraping.md}}) and [JavaScript objects within HTML]({{@link node_js/js_in_html.md}}))
 
 ### IP session consistency
 

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 title: API scraping
 description: Learn all about how the professionals scrape various types of APIs with various configurations, parameters, and requirements.
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-category: courses
+menuWeight: 3
+category: web scraping & automation
 paths:
     - api-scraping
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-title: Apify platform
+title: About this category
 description: Learn all about the Apify platform, all of the tools it offers, and how it can improve your overall development experience.
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-category: courses
+menuWeight: 7
+category: apify platform
 paths:
     - apify-platform
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-# [](#about-the-platform) Apify platform
+# [](#about-the-platform) About this category
 
-The [Apify platform](https://apify.com) was built to serve large-scale and high-performance web scraping and automation needs. It provides easy access to compute instances ([actors]({{@link apify_platform/getting_started/actors.md}})), convenient request and result storages, proxies, scheduling, webhooks and more - all accessible through the **Console** web interface, [Apify's API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2), or our [JavaScript](https://docs.apify.com/apify-client-js) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/apify-client-python) API clients.
+The [Apify platform](https://apify.com) was built to serve large-scale and high-performance web scraping and automation needs. It provides easy access to compute instances ([actors]({{@link getting_started/actors.md}})), convenient request and result storages, proxies, scheduling, webhooks and more - all accessible through the **Console** web interface, [Apify's API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2), or our [JavaScript](https://docs.apify.com/apify-client-js) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/apify-client-python) API clients.
 
-## [](#this-course) Course outline
+## [](#this-category) Category outline
 
-In this course, you'll be learning how to become an Apify platform developer from the ground up. From creating your first account, to developing actors, this is your one-stop-shop for understanding how the platform works, and how to work with it.
+In this category, you'll be learning how to become an Apify platform developer from the ground up. From creating your first account, to developing actors, this is your one-stop-shop for understanding how the platform works, and how to work with it.
 
 ## [](#first) First up
 
-We'll start off this course light, by showing you how to create an Apify account and get everything ready for development with the platform. [Let's go!]({{@link apify_platform/getting_started.md}})
+We'll start off this category light, by showing you how to create an Apify account and get everything ready for development with the platform. [Let's go!]({{@link getting_started.md}})

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 title: Concepts
 description: Learn about some common yet tricky concepts and terms that are used frequently within the academy, as well as in the world of scraper development.
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+menuWeight: 18
 category: glossary
 paths:
     - concepts