🗓️ Week 08 ->>Automated Data Collection II

Webscraping part 2 with RSelenium library. Students will learn how to scrape dynamic webpages that pull data from databases using Javascript. They will simulate web browsing rather than parsing static pages.

👨‍🏫 Lecture Slides

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✍️ Lab Materials

🚧 They will extract various types of data from a dynamic webpage.🚧

📚 Required Reading

• Breuer, J., Bishop, L., & Kinder-Kurlanda, K. (2020). The practical and ethical challenges in acquiring and sharing digital trace data: Negotiating public-private partnerships. New Media & Society, 22(11), 2058-2080.

• Harrison J (2022). RSelenium: R Bindings for ‘Selenium WebDriver’. R package version 1.7.9, https://docs.ropensci.org/RSelenium/.