Can I use Python to scrape text data from websites for my historical research dissertation, and what are the ethical guidelines or technical limitations I need to know as a beginner?
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Can I use Python to scrape text data from websites for my historical research dissertation, and what are the ethical guidelines or technical limitations I need to know as a beginner?
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academic web scraping ethics historical research copyright robots.txt RFC 9309 website terms of service scholarly research digital archives Google ↗
- Python beginner guide · python.org
- Beautiful Soup documentation · crummy.com
- Requests documentation · requests.readthedocs.io
- Pandas documentation · pandas.pydata.org
- Selenium documentation · selenium.dev
- RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion Protocol · rfc-editor.org
- Home - Machine Learning with Scholarly Content · libguides.mit.edu
- Web scraping for research: Legal, ethical, institutional, and scientific considerations - Megan A Brown, Andrew Gruen, Gabe Maldoff, Solomon Messing, Zeve Sanderson, Michael Zimmer, 2025 · journals.sagepub.com
- Copyright · live-lib-d9.pantheon.berkeley.edu
- Web Scraping - Digital Scholarship Resources · libguides.brown.edu
- Visit Internet Archive · archive.org
- Visit Library of Congress · loc.gov
- Explore historical newspaper records · loc.gov
- Visit Europeana · europeana.eu
- Visit HathiTrust · hathitrust.org