Web Scraping with Python

January 27 and 29, 2025

10 am - 12:00 PST

UCSB Library

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

Helpers: Jean Allen, Youjia He

Stay tuned, registration opens on January 5! Join our Carpentry mailing list with your UCSB email to get notified as soon as it goes live.

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 scrapping dynamic websites.

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Code of Conduct

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