Scraping sessions

• Introduction to Web Scraping (with R). (pdf)

  • Example: Scraping the World Heritage Site (download zipped files)
    • Example: Scraping the World Heritage Site (download zipped files)

• The basics: HTML and CSS

  • HTML Examples (download zipped files)
    • HTML Examples (download zipped files)

• Scraping web pages with R using rvest

  • SelectorGadget vignette
  • rvest documentation
  • Web scraping 101 (rvest vignette)
  • Exercises

• Automation and other tools

  • Automating Web Scraping
  • Regular expressions
    • Exercises

• Parsing PDF files

  • Parsing PDF files
  • Examples

• XML and XPath

  • Introduction to XML
  • Parsing XML with XPath
    • Exercises

• Using APIs to get data