Extracting Data from the Internet in Python

This workshop will cover how to extract data from the web using Python. We'll be covering both APIs and webscraping.

Topics Covered

• How the web works
• Accessing databases via RESTful APIs
• HTML / CSS
• Manipulating a webpage with Google DevTools
• Webscraping with Beautiful Soup
• Scraping javascript-heavy sites and interactive sites with Selenium

Requirements

This workshop will be using the Python programming language. See the software requirements here.

We will assume a basic knowledge of Python. If you've taken the D-Lab's Python Intensive, that should be sufficient.

Please note that materials are still in development, and will be changing.

Contact

Rochelle Terman: rterman@gmail.com

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