Computational Journalism, Spring 2016
Scraping the White House Press Briefings
The articles
Collect the lists of White House press briefings
Let's batch download a list of White House press briefings URL using Python and Requests.
Using BeautifulSoup to parse HTML and extract press briefings URLs
Extracting absolute URLs from White House press briefings listings
Before we can download each press briefing, we need to extract their URLs from each of the downloaded index pages.
Downloading and saving each and every White House press briefings
Basically, mass web-scraping and file-management, all in one exercise.