Description

Overview:

Downloading a single record from a website is easy, but downloading many records at a time – an increasingly frequent need for a historian – is much more efficient using a programming language such as Python. In this lesson, we will write a program that will download a series of records from the Old Bailey Online using custom search criteria, and save them to a directory on our computer. This process involves interpreting and manipulating URL Query Strings. In this case, the tutorial will seek to download sources that contain references to people of African descent that were published in the Old Bailey Proceedings between 1700 and 1750.

Subject:

Computer Science

Level:

Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division, Graduate / Professional, Adult Education

Material Type:

Diagram/Illustration

Author:

Adam Crymble

Provider:

Center for History and New Media

Date Added:

06/16/2015