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6 web scraping & data collection skills. Trigger: collecting web data, finding datasets, API access for research. Design: ethical scraping methods with rate limiting and data quality checks.

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Web Scraping & Data Collection — 6 Skills

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SkillDescription
academic-web-scrapingEthical web scraping and API-based data collection for research
dataset-finder-guideSearch and download research datasets from Kaggle, HuggingFace, and repos
easy-spider-guideGuide to EasySpider for visual no-code web data collection
google-scholar-scraperEthical Google Scholar data collection techniques and best practices
repository-harvesting-guideHarvest metadata from open repositories using OAI-PMH protocol
web-scraping-ethics-guideScrape web data ethically and legally for research purposes