Web Scraping with Python

January 27 and 29, 2026

10 AM - 12:00 PM PST

UCSB Library, Room 2509

Instructors: Jose Nino Muriel, Jairo Melo-Flórez, Julien Brun

Helpers: Jean Allen

Turn websites into usable data. In this intermediate workshop, you will master web scraping using Python's Requests, Beautiful Soup, and Selenium. Learn to read and navigate the backbone of a website (its HTML content) and automate data extraction from both static and dynamic web pages.

Designed for participants with basic knowledge of Python programming.

Complete workshop content, day by day:

Day 1: Exploring an HTML document and parsing its content with BeautifulSoup.
Day 2: Automating data collection and scraping dynamic websites.

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