Editing Designing Internet Research (Spring 2025) (section)

=== Thursday May 1: Web Scraping ===

;Required readings:

* Mitchell, Ryan. 2024. ''Web Scraping with Python''. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly. [Selections, Preface, Chapters 1-3] {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/134256842/download?download_frd=1}}
* Luscombe, Alex, Kevin Dick, and Kevin Walby. 2022. “Algorithmic Thinking in the Public Interest: Navigating Technical, Legal, and Ethical Hurdles to Web Scraping in the Social Sciences.” ''Quality & Quantity'' 56 (3): 1023–44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01164-0. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01164-0}}
* Ulloa, Roberto, Mangold ,Frank, Schmidt ,Felix, Gilsbach ,Judith, and Sebastian and Stier. n.d. “Beyond Time Delays: How Web Scraping Distorts Measures of Online News Consumption.” ''Communication Methods and Measures'' 0 (0): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2025.2482538. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2025.2482538}}
* Bale, Ajay Sudhir, Naveen Ghorpade, Rohith S, S Kamalesh, Rohith R, and Rohan B S. 2022. “Web Scraping Approaches and Their Performance on Modern Websites.” In ''2022 3rd International Conference on Electronics and Sustainable Communication Systems (ICESC)'', 956–59. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICESC54411.2022.9885689. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1109/ICESC54411.2022.9885689}}
: ''Note:'' This paper is quite rough, and problematic, in several ways. I've assigned it because very short and provides a report on the authors' success at scraping a number of very popular websites. Look it overly quickly and lets talk about it in class.

;Optional reading:
* Aydin, Olgun. 2018. ''R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide: Techniques and Tools to Crawl and Scrape Data from Websites''. Birminghan, UK: Packt Publishing Ltd.