Practical approaches for web scraping for research – using Airbnb as an example data provider

Referencing UBDC’s project and open-source software platform to scrape short-term-let data from Airbnb, this webinar provided practical guidance on how researchers, technologists and data scientists can approach web scraping, from the selection of online sources to the planning, conceptualisation, governance, risk management and implementation of technical approaches.

Participants received practical training and code examples, developing an understanding not only of how scraping works but also how to systematise approaches to scale up data collection while avoiding common pitfalls.

Throughout the session, a series of practical examples covered data scraping using UBDC’s established scraping method from Airbnb’s online platform.

The related resources for this webinar (including a PDF of the transcription) can be viewed/downloaded at: https://ubdc.ac.uk/training2021#WebSc...

This webinar was part of a series of free training webinars run by UBDC throughout 2021 on a wide range of topics and aimed at a variety of levels of understanding.

You can find out more about these webinars and get more resources at: https://ubdc.ac.uk/training2021