Software: Learn Python for Data

Python has the built-in requests library to retrieve web pages or API content.

Web Scraping

• Beautiful Soup - the easiest package but just for parsing HTML.
  • slides. - This session covers topics:  What is Web scraping?  Why do we need it? ; How to parse a web page to extract data, how to save parsed data in CSV format; terms of services and legal issues involved in website scraping, and more.
• Scrapy - a more comprehensive package that can retrieve data asynchronously
• Selenium - automates a browser allowing interaction with with JavaScript on pages

APIs

• json - built-in library that encodes and decodes JSON, the standard format of many APIs
• tweepy - library optimized for accessing the Twitter API.

Tutorials

• Pull data fro an API in Python (AskPython)
• Python API Tutorial: Getting Started with APIs (DataQuest)

Collecting Data with Experiments

These are stand-alone software to run experiments and do not require programming, but it can be useful to know Python in order to work with them. 

• PsychoPy
  • Videos: Programming for Psychology in Python - Vision Science
• OpenSesame
  • Tutorial: OpenSesame Tutorial: Using Image Stimuli