In this course you will learn:

• the basics of web scraping (using tags, classes and ids)

• two great R packages: Rvest and Selenium

• to scrape server-side and client-side rendered pages

• to get data from json API’s

If you have ever wanted to collect:

• text from the internet for NLP!

• numbers from websites to visualize!

• tables of data from the internet to put into your model!

• or anything else involving getting data from the internet.

Then this course is for you!

At the end of the course you will be able to:

• Extract data from structured tables on the internet

• Collect text data from a website (like reviews) and structure it in a tidy data set

• Collect a diverse set of data points from a website (like products) and structure it in a tidy data set

• Collect structured data from an API - ready for analysis

• Scrape websites that are normally very hard to extract data from.