Your turn!

Query an API or scrape a website in teams

Thursday, June 5, 2025

Time:
9am–noon, 1:30pm–4pm

Live notes:
Etherpad

Topic:
Today, you will be working in teams on a project of your own. Your goal is to extract useful data from a website, either via API querying (if the option is available) or via web scraping (if your site has no API).

Try to pair up with one or more people having a similar interest.

Of course, we will be with you all day to help!

It would be fantastic if you could chose a website that contains data useful for your research or that is of interest to you. If you don’t have any idea however, here is a list of sites that have well-built APIs:

You can find other sites with good APIs here and here.


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