Intro to Web Scraping: Automating Data Extraction Without Coding
I attended the workshop “Intro to Web Scraping: Automating Data Extraction Without Coding,” which focused on using no-code tools to collect and organize web-based data efficiently. During the session, I learned how to use the Web Scraper Chrome extension and its AI wizard to create a sitemap that duplicates a website’s structure using parent and child elements. The workshop showed how wrappers are used to identify and extract structured data, and how page numbers and scrolling are handled to capture multi-page datasets. We used hands-on examples, including scraping structured tables from public websites. I gained exposure to automating data extractions without writing code and a better understanding of how data can be transformed into structured datasets for analysis.