Intro to Web Scraping Automating Data Extraction without Coding
As a Temple University MIS major, I attended an introductory workshop on web scraping, focusing on the non-coding aspects of scraping and automation. The workshop introduced WebScraper.io, a web scraping tool for obtaining structured data from sources such as Wikipedia articles and online discussion forums. Through the workshop, I gained experience and insight into creating sitemaps, handling pagination, and retrieving large amounts of data from numerous web pages through web scraping. The workshop also covered the legal and ethical issues that are associated with web scraping, specifically the responsible practice of web scraping.