Automated Web Scraping with R

This repository holds the materials for a workshop on harvesting data from websites.

Unless otherwise noted, all material is copyright Resul Umit, licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0. An easy to read summary of this permissive licence is available on the Creative Commons website.

Contents

Part 1. Getting the Tools Ready - e.g., installing software	Part 4. CSS Selectors - e.g., selecting an element
Part 2. Preliminary Considerations - e.g., ethics of web scraping	Part 5. Scraping Static Pages - e.g., getting text from an element
Part 3. HTML Basics - e.g., elements and attributes	Part 6. Scraping Dynamic Pages - e.g., clicking to create an element