Web scraping is the process of extracting text and numeric data from a webpage using software like R. Join this workshop to discover how R makes it easy to extract the data you need from a webpage and store it in a data frame. 

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Learning Objectives:

• Identify and extract HTML data from a webpage with the inspect feature.

• Use R’s Rvest package to extract data and store it in a data frame.

• Demonstrate how R’s RSelenium package allows for advanced data extraction using website interactions such as mouse clicks, filling out forms, etc.

• Understand HTML format, including tags, attributes, etc.

• Distinguish between extracting data through web scraping vs APIs. 

Helpful Information:

• Install R (windows, mac)

• Install RStudio

• Install and load packages

• Basics of R

• R web scraping packages (Rvest, RSelenium)

• HTML tags, HTML attributes, HTML tags vs elements vs attributes, HTML attributes list

• To follow along hands-on during the workshop and/or use the software after the workshop: Request access to CCSS Cloud Computing resources 

Instructor: Jacob Grippin