Week 3: Regexes & Crawling the web
This lecture answers the following questions:
- Why will Regexes change your life? (not in slides, code script only.)
- How do I harness how the web is written to scrape websites? (Tuesday)
- What do I have to bear in mind when scraping websites? (Thursday)
Slides
Please click here to download the slides for Tuesday, October 28, 2025. Caveat: the original slides contain recordings of my screen demonstrating web scraping. These could not be included due to storage constraints.
Please click here to download the slides for Thursday, October 30, 2025.
Alternatively, read them here (probably not the best if you’re visiting this page on a mobile device):