πŸ›£οΈ Week 05 - Lab Roadmap (90 min)

Author

Dr. Jon Cardoso-Silva

This lab is part of the GENIAL project.

If you have never accessed ChatGPT, you must create an account.

Click on chat.openai.com and sign up with your email address (it doesn’t have to be your LSE email address).

When you reach Part 3 of this lab, read the specific instructions for GENIAL participants.

🎯 Learning Objectives

  • Become more comfortable with reading and following written instructions in Jupyter Notebooks independently
  • Understand URL parameters
  • Play with JSON output
  • Practice some more CSS selectors and XPath expressions
  • Discover HTML obfuscation, a technique used to make it harder to scrape data from a website
  • Practice web scraping on Wikipedia data

πŸ“‹ Lab Tasks

🎯 ACTION POINTS

  1. Download the Jupyter Notebook below, save it to your DS105 folder and open it in VS Code

  1. Follow the instructions in the notebook to complete the lab tasks