9th Session- Integrative Lab: Webscraping

For this assignment, you will again web scrape videos from two YouTube channels. You will be assigned two channels to scrape. In contrast to our previous exercise, you will NOT scrape the featured videos of the specified news channel, but the search result of the name of the news channel in combination with your name:

1) Scrape the search results when you search for the [name of media outlet] + [your first & last name (your given & family name)]. For example, for the media outlet "The Young Turks", Prof. Hilbert would search:

Take a screenshot of the search result (Note: if you don't get any or very few search results, take a screenshot to show this and try again with only your first or last name, or a variant of your names).

2) Scrape both all the videos that appear as your search result + the recommended videos inside each of the 'search result' videos. For rough guidance, see our previous tutorial: UCCSS_LAB_webscraping  (you can, but you do not need to scroll down on the search results: it is enough to scrape the videos that first appear from the search).

3) Do step (1) and step (2) this for both indicated channels (see task below)

4) Organize both channels in one single csv file, ready for upload in the SNA software Gephi. For guidance, see our previous tutorial: UCCSS_LAB_SNA: Data Wrangling (12min)

5) Upload the single .csv file here. The file must be named with your channels and full name, for example >TheYoungTurks_DemocracyNow_MartinHilbert.csv<.

6) Then, click on "Assignment detail" / "Attempt" and in "Add comment" upload both screenshots (see step 1). If you cannot find it, go to "Grades" then click on this assignment: