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Workshop: APIs, Data Scraping, and Twitter Bots

Workshop: APIs, Data Scraping, and Twitter Bots

 

In this informal and hands-on workshop led by second-year MA in Digital Humanities student Ericka Christie, participants will work through some of the basics of data scraping on the web.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

  • Understand the purpose of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), especially web APIs.

  • Authenticate to and interact with a real API—the Twitter API.

  • Create a Twitterbot—that is, a Python program that automatically controls a Twitter account.

  • Collect tweets and tweet metadata from Twitter's streaming API.

Please RSVP to luctsdh@luc.edu and bring your laptop if you wish to participate! No previous experience with Python is required, but you will need a Twitter account.