2025-02-12 Introduction to Web scraping

Learn how to web scrape using Python

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Web scraping
Often information is not readily available as structured data online. One has to "scrape" it from the web. In this course you will learn how to automate that process using Python.
  • Course Objectives
  • An introduction to how to web scrape using BeautifulSoup, Selenium and Scrapy.
  • After this course, participants will be able to
    • understand the challenges (ethical and technical) to scraping.
    • scrape static pages and also perform actions to scrape from dynamic pages.
Target group
  • Students and Staff of UniBe.
Prerequisites
  • Participants must bring own laptops
  • Participants should have a GitHub account
  • Participants should be familiar but not experts with Python. No specific software development knowledge is necessary
Methods
The course is interactive with live demonstrations followed by hands-on sessions where participants get to apply what they just learned.
Certificate
  • A certificate will be delivered to participants who have attended the whole training.
Coaches
  • Sukanya Nath is a Data scientist and NLP specialist at the University of Bern.
Time : 2025-02-12 09:00-17:00
Location : Room 124, Uni Mittelstrasse, Mittelstrasse 43
Online Participation: Possible to attend on Zoom upon request
Zoom Link: https://unibe-ch.zoom.us/j/69584539521?pwd=yNUJULNi1gCQq7CrhCktMbwgD3UQKb.1 
Meeting ID: 695 8453 9521
Passcode: 128491
Training language: English
Participants : Max 25
Registraion : Mandatory
Prerequisites : Laptop
Certificate : Certificate for full training attendance
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