APIs and Web Scraping with R
Skill Path
Learn the web scraping skills you need to start or progress your data career. You'll learn how to collect your own data from APIs and the web using R and start data projects.
- Intermediate friendly
- 1 month (5 hrs/week)
- Self paced
- 2 Courses
- 2 projects
Overview of R courses
R skills you'll learn
- ✓ Performing queries on external data sources using an API with R
- ✓ Collecting data from the web using a variety of web scraping tools
- ✓ Identifying and overcoming common setbacks in practical data analysis
Outline of R courses
1 steps · 2 courses
APIs and Web Scraping with R [2 courses]
Learn how to acquire data from APIs and the web.
- Course 1
Introduction to APIs in R
2hAcquire data from external APIs in R, handling JSON responses, authentication, and status codes to support real-world analysis workflows.
Course Objectives ▾
- Query external data sources using an API
- Query using an API with authentication
- Course 2
Introduction to Web Scraping in R
2hCollect structured data from websites by scraping and parsing web pages in R to support downstream analysis and insights.
Course Objectives ▾
- Scrape data from the web
- Identify tools for complex web pages
R projects you'll build
2 hands-on projects across the path
New York Solar Resource Data
For this project, we'll step into the role of data analysts to extract solar resource data for New York City using an API, parse the JSON response, and convert it into a dataframe for analysis in R.
Analyzing Movie Ratings
For this project, we'll step into the role of data analysts to scrape IMDb movie data using R, analyzing ratings and votes to identify trends and build data visualization skills.
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