In this repository you will find the code of the "Coding 2: Web Scraping with R" course in the 2020/2021 Fall term, part of the MSc in Business Analytics at CEU.

Web scraping with R

Pre requirements:

Installed R and R studio
"rvest", "data.table", "jsonlite" package installed

install.packages(c("rvest", "data.table", "jsonlite"))

SelectorGadget extension for browser. (Chrome is the preferred browser)

Topics:

rvest, html_nodes, html_attr, html_table, lapply, sapply, for loop, if statment
GET, POST, ad header and data to requests
Selenium
Multi threading with R and python

Assignments

Scrape news site(25%)
Work with api(25%)
Final assignments(50%)

Schedule

6 X 100 mins
Schedule

Week 1

Loops, sapply, lapply, for while
Functions
Rvest
HTML structure
Object selector with css SelectorGadget

Contact

Orsós Mihály
git email

Mészáros Viktória
git email