Workshop: Web Scraping with Python

Date: 9 Jan 2023 (Mon)

Time: 14:30 - 17:00

Venue: Online via MS Teams  

Target Audience: All Students

Medium of Instruction: English

Prerequisite:

• Basic Python programming experience is required.
• Interested in or need web scraping skill for uses.

Course Description:

• Understand the process of downloading, parsing and extracting data from websites including text and images. Store the data in Google drive and convert them into a structured format in Python for further analysis and use.
  

Course Outline:

1. What is web scraping?
2. Why we need it?
3. What Python packages are there for web scraping?
4. Example code for scraping a simple website
5. Example code for scraping a more complex website
6. Save the collected data to csv files and Google drive
7. How to schedule a Python script to run?