Web Scraping & Data APIs: What They Are & How to Use Them for Your Research Dataset
🚀 Web Scraping and Data APIs: A Brief Introduction 🚀
Want to collect data from websites but don’t know where to start? In this video, I introduce Web Scraping and Data APIs, breaking down their differences and how they work.
🔥 What You’ll Learn:
✅ What Web Scraping is and how it works
✅ What Data APIs are and why they’re useful
✅ Real-world examples of both in action
Whether you're a beginner looking to extract data for the first time or a developer deciding between scraping and APIs, this video will give you a solid foundation to get started!
💬 Got questions? Drop a comment below, and let’s discuss!
TIMELINE
0:00 - Intro
0:03 - Overview of Web Scraping and Data APIs
0:24 - What are they exactly?
1:01 - Robots.txt
1:43 - Case 1: Scrapethisiste.com
2:53 - Case 1: Using Python to scrape results
3:11 - Case 1: Using Excel to scrape results
3:21 - Case 2: A mock forum to scrape data
3:38 - Case 2: Using Python to scrape (web)
3:57 - Case 2: Using Python to scrape (HTML files)
4:33 - Case 3: Google/YouTube Data API
5:51 - Case 4: Reddit Data API
7:24 - Outro
LINKS
Web scraping: Understanding Robots.txt: https://yoast.com/ultimate-guide-robo...
Web scraping Sandbox Site: https://www.scrapethissite.com/
Web scraping Sandbox Page Used in Video: https://www.scrapethissite.com/pages/...
Code for Python Sandbox Web Scraping: https://codeshare.io/obEm6p
Code for Web Scraping Sample Forum HTML files: https://codeshare.io/k0YPX3
Sample Forum HTML files: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/hgpqlx...
YouTube Video API Comment Code in Python: https://codeshare.io/4YdQBd
Google API register: https://developers.google.com/identit...
Reddit API Code Example for r/Nurses in Python: https://codeshare.io/Mk3oKQ
Create Reddit API Credentials: / apps
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