Web scraping Advanced

Tutorial: Web scraping Advanced

Learning goals

  • Make more advanced use of selenium, emulating user interaction on a site (e.g., scrolling and filling in forms)
  • Access data that is hidden behind a login-screen
  • Apply search parameters to obtain subsets of data
  • Capture and store images from the web
  • Save the retrieved data as tabular files (e.g., CSV)

Getting started