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NYUSW: Web Scraping and Automation

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NYUSW: Web Scraping and Automation

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RSVP on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/events/496750533866680/).

Learn about webscraping and automating tasks using the web driver, Selenium. This workshop will be taught by a software engineer at Handy, Rakesh Ranjan Sukla. Please bring your laptop.

Requirement: Basic knowledge of Python and HTML web elements.

Install Selenium - `pip install selenium`

Speaker: Rakesh Ranjan Sukla

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What is Selenium (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Selenium/105579449475923)?

Selenium is a webdriver: it takes control of your browser, which then does all the work. Hence what the website “sees” is Chrome or Firefox or IE; it does not see Python or Selenium. That makes it a lot harder for the website to tell your bot from a human being.

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