Prepare

Due: February 27, 2025

prepare
Modified

January 13, 2025

Learning objectives

  • Define HTML and CSS selectors
  • Introduce the {rvest} package for reproducible web scraping
  • Demonstrate how to extract information from HTML pages
  • Practice scraping data

Preparations

📖 Read

👩🏽‍💻 Install

  • SelectorGadget - a JavaScript bookmarklet we will use to interactively figure out how to extract components from an HTML page. Literally you just drag this link (SelectorGadget) into your bookmarks bar in your web browser.