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May
8
2024

Next Steps in Python: Intro to web scraping with Selenium

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When: Wednesday, May 8, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Where: Online

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Letty Vega  

Group: Northwestern IT Research Computing and Data Services

Category: Training

Description:

Next Steps in Python Workshop Series is a seven-part series covering intermediate Python skills, tips, and tricks guaranteed to make your coding life easier. You do not need to attend each session to participate - there is a new lesson each week. 

Each one-hour session meets via Zoom on Wednesdays at noon, CDT.  

Intro to web scraping with Selenium 
Selenium is a browser automation tool that allows users to interact with HTML elements from any website. In this workshop, we will introduce attendees to Selenium and ChromeDriver, a separate executable that facilitates communication between Selenium and Google Chrome. Attendees will learn to deploy these tools to search for and grab data from websites automatically. 

Prerequisites: Participants should be familiar with Python at an introductory level. 

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