Mini-workshop and introduction into the world of scraping/scrapism
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In this two-part workshop, you will experiment with different strategies and techniques for scraping data from the internet. This technique is also called "scraping". Scraped data can be later used for visualisations, investigative research, installations, sound etc.). We will examine so-called APIs and look at art projects that deal critically with data.
- A list of public APIs
- Learn Python the hard way
- Web scraper in python great and exhaustive tutorial
- Scrapism by Sam Levigne (great stuff)
- Insomnium
- Geo lat/lng boxfinder
- Convert UNIX time
- Curl converter prepares request in correct format
python, datascience, creativecoding, web scraping