Include Beautiful Soup instead of Scrapy (or as an add-on)

[weaverbel]

Should we include some of the info from here to bring into the lesson? Some people think BS is a better Python tool than Scrapy. https://github.com/qut-dmrc/odiq-web-scraping-workshop @ldko @richyvk

There is also this lesson - both developed by @brendam https://github.com/qut-dmrc/web-scraping-intro-workshop

[laufers]

When we have done web-scraping here at OU, we introduce BS and highlight Pandas ability to scrap tables from a webpage. Here is the outline of the notebook that was used for that lesson which was adapted from http://rjweiss.github.io/VAM-Python/VAM.html

[laufers]

whoops, for the OU link: http://ouinformatics.github.io/swc_beautiful_soup/

[ldko]

On #7 there is further discussion and some agreement about adapting the lesson to use Beautiful Soup.

[runderwood]

See #11 and #12. Might we close this issue and assume this will be accomplished in those?