πŸ›£οΈ Week 05 - Web scraping

Lab Roadmap (90 min)

Author

Dr. Jon Cardoso-Silva

Published

12 February 2024

πŸ₯… Learning Objectives

  • Recap the essentials of HTML & CSS
  • Identify different CSS selectors
  • Practice web scraping with scrapy
  • Practice creating a pandas Data Frame

πŸ“‹ Lab Tasks

Here are the instructions for this lab. No need to wait for your class teacher. You can tackle them as soon as you come to the classroom.

Part 0: Export your chat logs (~ 3 min)

As part of the GENIAL project, we ask that you fill out the following form as soon as you come to the lab:

🎯 ACTION POINTS

  1. πŸ”— CLICK HERE to export your chat log.

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πŸ‘‰ NOTE: You MUST complete the initial form.

If you really don’t want to participate in GENIAL, just answer β€˜No’ to the Terms & Conditions question - your e-mail address will be deleted from GENIAL’s database the following week.

The lab itself: Your time to do web scraping

We will pick up from where we left off in the W04 lecture, but we have created a separate notebook with compiled useful information for you.

Download it from there: