In this class, we will learn how to retrieve textual data from web pages and social networks. We will cover the following points:
- How web server and browser interact
- What’s in a web page (html, css)
- How to retrieve web pages (Python’s Requests Library)
- How to process web page content (BeautifulSoup)
- What’s an API(Application Programming Interface)
- How to extract text from Wikipedia and messages from the Mastodon social network (wptools, Mastodon)
