{"id":20,"date":"2026-02-04T17:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/calvinbinu\/blog\/points\/intro-to-web-scraping-automating-data-extraction-without-coding\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:37:56","slug":"intro-to-web-scraping-automating-data-extraction-without-coding","status":"publish","type":"points","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/calvinbinu\/points\/intro-to-web-scraping-automating-data-extraction-without-coding\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Web Scraping: Automating Data Extraction Without Coding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the workshop &#8220;<em>Intro to Web Scraping: Automating Data Extraction Without Coding,&#8221; <\/em>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","points","type-points","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/calvinbinu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/calvinbinu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/calvinbinu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/points"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/calvinbinu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/calvinbinu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/calvinbinu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/calvinbinu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}