yintellect / web-scrape-workshop

A workshop about web scraping I gave at Columbia University during the 2019 Fall semester

Webscrap Workshop for Columbia QMSS

Install Requirements

Video Tutorial on how to set up tools for webscraping.

1. Python Anaconda distribution 3.7

   https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/

2. Jupyter notebook (Python Library)

   pip install jupyter notebook
   

3. Chrome Driver

   https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

   unzip chrome driver

   Press command and N to have a new Finder window

   Go -> Go to Folder: /usr/local/bin

   Drag chrome driver to /usr/local/bin

4. selenium (Python Library)

5. pip install selenium

Workshop Main Script

git clone https://github.com/YiAlpha/web-scrape-workshop.git