Scrape a website with Python

We've got something extra special cooked up for you this month: an introduction to scraping, featuring two of the country's foremost scraping experts! (But really though.) Jackie Kazil (https://twitter.com/JackieKazil), a Presidential Innovation Fellow and PyLadies founder, and Thomas Levine (https://twitter.com/thomaslevine), a data artist formerly of ScraperWiki, are going to teach us some introductory Python.

We'll be talking the Sunshine Week talk (http://press.org/events/partly-cloudy-why-public-information-doesnt-always-accessible-information) on Wednesday the 18th, but on Thursday the 27th we'll be walking the walk. At the end of the night we'll have data we scraped from a government website that can be used for the public good. (Website is to be determined, but suggestions are welcome.)

We've only have a couple hours, but we'll be sure to introduce you to lots of awesome places to keep up your scraping and put it to use, like Code for DC (http://codefordc.org/) and DC Python (http://dcpython.org/).

Try to get to the Sunlight Foundation at 6 p.m. and we'll get started at 6:30. Bring your computer and a charger!