Goal of this workshop
This workshop is intended to orient complete beginners to the fundamentals of web scraping. By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:
- describe what web scraping is
- identify cases when web scraping may be useful
- use one method to scrape content from the web
Schedule
| 0:00 | Setup and orientation |
| 0:05 | What is web scraping? |
| 0:15 | Understanding website structure |
| 0:40 | Data Miner activity |
| 0:50 | Exploring other tools and approaches |
| 1:10 | Jupyter activity |
| 1:25 | Discussion and Wrap-up |