Scraping Workshop Resources

Easing into API Requests

• Slides in View Mode
• Handout

Examples

• Library of Congress API Documentation
  • Requests
  • Responses

Converting JSON to CSV

• json-csv.com
• openrefine.org

Tutorials

• Fetching and Parsing Data from the Web with OpenRefine
• Chronicling America API Tutorial

More Information

• Infoguide Page
• LC for Robots
• APIs for Librarians
• Form to create an HTTP API request
• Introduction to Populating a Website with API Data

Scraping from Web Pages without Programming

• Get the Scraper Extension
• Slides in View Mode
• Scraper Exercises

Examples:

• https://catalog.gmu.edu/courses/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population