Sofia Lai MPP & Marina Luna MPP
This repository provides materials for the session Dynamic Web Scraping with R Selenium, which is part of the I2DS Tools for Data Science workshop run at the Hertie School, Berlin in November 2021. The student-run workshop is part of the course Introduction to Data Science taught by Simon Munzert at the Hertie School, Berlin, in Fall 2021.
This session will introduce you to the Dynamic Web Scraping using RSelenium. Dynamic Web Scraping is a useful skill for collecting data from dynamic web pages. RSelenium is a package that allows to automate human behavior on a website by communicating through Selenium Web Driver.
The goals of this session are to (1) equip you with conceptual knowledge about dynamic web pages and dynamic web scraping, (2) show you the main functions of the RSelenium pacakge, and (3) provide you with practice material as well as some further readings.
The material in this repository is made available under the MIT license.
The code and the materials for the live session were prepared mainly by Sofia Lai, who will facilitate the live session.
The background and presentation were prepared mainly by Marina Luna, who recorded the video presentation.