Week 3/4: Crawling the web

Lecture (Thursday): 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?
  • What do I have to bear in mind when scraping websites?

Slides

Practical (Wednesday): Crawling the web