Before we can learn how to scrape websites, it's important to have a basic understanding of the Internet and Web. The below are a few resources to help get your bearings. Please read, watch and work through the exercises, as appropriate, before arriving in class next week. If you fail to work through the below material, you'll likely be very confused as we ramp up on web scraping.
- Watch The Internet in 5 Minutes (or Less) and read How does the Internet work?
- Read How the Web works
- Read and work through the following setions of the Mozilla tutorial on creating a website:
- What will your webiste look like? - for this section, the main thing to focus on is finding and downloading an image (using the Firefox image is fine) for the subsequent parts of the tutorial.
- Dealing with files
- HTML basics