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Demonstrate iterative operations for APIs and web scraping #264

Closed bensoltoff closed 3 years ago

bensoltoff commented 3 years ago

Rochelle has a simple example using the NYTimes API. Would also be a good entry point for the polite package.

See #207

deblnia commented 3 years ago

I like this! Maybe out of scope, but would add maybe an example using RSelenium or something to that effect for JS tables.

bensoltoff commented 3 years ago

I think that would be beyond this course. Right now I think we're close to capacity on APIs, but it would be very helpful if students had explicit instruction on how to iterate over multiple pages of results. It is a common question for individual submissions that week, and students do not appear to intuitively connect their knowledge of iterative operations with this problem.

If I have an expanded unit on APIs in M(ore)CFSS, RSelenium could be useful. Though if I do APIs in that course I'm leaning more towards constructing and deploying them using plumber