I’m delivering a course in scraping in Utrecht in the Netherlands on April 2. The booking page with more details about location etc is here – a broad breakdown below:

• Scraping for journalism: ideas and examples
• Scraping basics: finding structure in HTML and URLs; what’s possible with programming
• Simple scraping jobs: how to write a basic scraper in 5 minutes
• Scraping tools: Outwit Hub and Import.io
• How to scrape dozens of public webpages
• Scraping databases with empty searches
• How to understand scrapers on Scraperwiki: Scraping PDFs, lists of URLs, and databases with specific searches