04_scraping_examples.qmd

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title: "Web scraping"
subtitle: "SICSS, 2022"
author: Christopher Barrie
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## Introduction

-   Why scrape pages?
    -   Often, because there's no API...
    -   Or the API doesn't give us what we want
    -   Or we just want to grab a small amount of info...

## Early origins...

![](images/pageso.png)

## Examples

![](images/auditnhb.png)

-   **Data and code** <https://osf.io/hwuxf/?view_only=3fa7499661df487689031e11b8ea20b4>

## Examples

![](images/urmansscr.png)

## Group work

1.  Come up with a question answerable using scraped data
2.  Detail the data you would collect