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ECPR Methods Summer School: Automated Collection of Web and Social Data Pablo Barber a London School of Economics pablobarbera.com Course website: pablobarbera.com/ECPR-SC104 Scraping the web Advanced scraping Selenium: I General idea:


  1. ECPR Methods Summer School: Automated Collection of Web and Social Data Pablo Barber´ a London School of Economics pablobarbera.com Course website: pablobarbera.com/ECPR-SC104

  2. Scraping the web

  3. Advanced scraping Selenium: I General idea: browser control to scrape dynamically rendered web pages I Originally developed for web testing purposes I R will launch a browser session and all communication will be routed through that browser session. I phantomJS : headless browser (will not display website) I Capabilities: complete forms, write text, click on buttons or area of website, navigate to new URL...

  4. Scraping newspaper websites RSS feeds I Really Simple Syndication, originally developed as a way to regularly check for new content on sites I Includes list of entries (with some more information) and when they were updated I Written in XML format (eXtensible Markup Language) I Example: The Guardian RSS feed

  5. Social event Save the date: Wednesday Aug. 1st, 6pm Location TBA

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