Scraping Your First Web Page with R
Course info
Course info
Description
The R programming language and the Rvest package enables you to simply and efficiently scrape web pages. In this course, Scraping Your First Web Page with R, you will learn how to scrape your first web page. First, you will learn about the web scraping workflow. Next, you will discover ways to identify the data you need in a web page. Finally, you will explore how to extract data from the web page. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of the R programming language needed to scrape your first web page.
About the author
With almost two decades of software development experience, Jean-Marc Julien has programmed in a number of computer programming languages including Java, Swift, C#, C++, Javascript, Python, PHP, SQL and more. He is currently working as a systems software engineer in the healthcare industry.
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Course Overview
(Music) Hi, my name is Jean-Marc Julien, and I'd like to welcome you to my course, Scraping Your First Web Page with R. I'm a software engineer who's been working with data for most of my career. I'd like to show you how the R programming language makes it very simple and easy to do web scraping. This course is a quick introduction to web scraping with R and no prior experience is required. Some of the major topics that we'll cover include getting oriented to the web scraping workflow so you can have an idea of the steps that involve web scraping. Then we'll cover identifying the data you need in a web page, and we'll get to see the tools that we can use to help us in this process such as the selector gadget tool, and also we'll learn how to extract data from a web page, and we'll learn about rvest, which is an R package that will help us do this. By the end of this course, you will have a solid foundation to get started scraping your first web page with the R programming language. I'm excited to begin this journey with you to scrape our first page in R so let's get started.