Python: Webscraping

by Kelvin Smith Library

Workshop Admission: Free Audience: Faculty Audience: Graduate/Professional ... Audience: Postdoctoral Scholars Audience: Staff Audience: Undergraduate Students Digital Humanities Library Event Series: Digital Scholarship @ KSL

Tue, Sep 19, 2023

1 PM – 2 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Web scraping allows researchers to convert online information into stable datasets so it can be used in research without worrying about changes to a website outside of their control. We will go over the structures of web pages and how to interact with them, and use python build a simple web scraper to extract relevant data from several example websites.

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