R-Ladies Cape Town (English) Web scraping with R (session 1)
Channel: R-Ladies Global
Date: 2020-10-09

Web scraping is a very useful tool to have in your data science/data analysis toolbox. It is the automated gathering of information and data from websites hosted on the internet, typically into a central local database or spreadsheet, for later retrieval or analysis. 

This is session 1 of 4 in our "Web scraping with R" course. In this session, we cover:

• Introduction to Web Scraping
• Scraping with Screenshots
• Working with URLs

Presenter: Andrew Collier
Exegetic Analytics, @datawookie

Andrew has extensive experience in web scraping and recently used it to create the Trundler API and R package: a repository of historical pricing data of goods sold by major local retailers (https://www.trundler.dev/). 

Materials:
The materials needed in this session are hosted here: https://github.com/datawookie/rladies-web-scraping