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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:
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Understand the purpose of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), especially web APIs.
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Authenticate to and interact with a real API—the Twitter API.
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Create a Twitterbot—that is, a Python program that automatically controls a Twitter account.
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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.