Webscraping in R and python

Welcome

This is the webpage of the webscraping crash course.

Requirements

Students are expected to have a working knowledge of R and python.

For a refresher in R, see my website -> teaching -> A gentle introduction to R programming

Slides

To practice CSS and XPath selectors: see this webpage.

• Introduction to webscraping

• Advanced webscraping

Exercizes

• Simple webscraping of multiple pages, due 7 November 2022

• Simple webscraping of search results, due 14 November 2022