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Data Crawling

• The course is held in English
• The number of participants is limited to 20
• Registration: Please register via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1l224lRK5on-MZMoV2OLrwULOEgUsf39CP5POPcogZHo registration will close on September 30, 2025)
  -> The registration period has expired. If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Jörg Claussen: J.Claussen@lmu.de
• Registration is binding. "First come, first served" applies, but late stage MBR students may be priotized.

Course Overview

The increasing availability of structured data on the Internet is becoming an important data source for research in economics and management. However, much of the structured data cannot be readily downloaded but can only be accessed through websites. The manual extraction of content from websites is burdensome and becomes with increasing size of the underlying data quickly unfeasible. One solution is to systematically extract this data with automated programs written for this purpose, so called crawlers. The goal of this course is to provide a good understanding about the possibilities of crawling, while also giving enough time to work on your own crawling project.

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