Online workshop: Web scraping with Google Chrome
Links to the webpages mentioned in the workshop can be found below the description that follows.
Researchers often have to collect data and build datasets themselves. Web scraping allows researchers to access and collect structured web data on publicly available web pages in an automated way rather than time-consuming manual copying and pasting. This session demonstrates how to use the 'Web Scraper' Chrome browser extension to perform basic web scraping on the Manchester City Council website to simultaneously retrieve news articles from multiple pages, images and other attributes. Attendees are invited to practice the steps themselves as the workshop proceeds and ask questions throughout.
Download Web Scraper here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/de...
Manchester Council News webpage: https://www.manchester.gov.uk/news/
Manchester Council News Archive August 2020: https://secure.manchester.gov.uk/news...
You can find the resources on the event web page: https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/we...