Web Scraping Tutorial and Practice
Details
In this meeting Elke Patton will walk us through how to do web scraping in R. In the tutorial she will cover:
- Website data, how is it coded?
- Using a website's developers toolbox and plugins to find location of the data.
- Extracting the data.
- Practice/Brainstorm with existing code.
The code for the tutorial can be found here: https://github.com/rladies-san-diego/web_scraping