# First GitHub Scraper

A step-by-step introduction to free, automated web scraping with GitHub’s powerful [Actions feature](https://github.com/features/actions).

You will learn how to:

* Create a GitHub repository to store your code
* Use Python to scrape data from the web
* Configure GitHub Actions to schedule the scrape
* Automatically save the results to the repository
* Send a Slack notification when new data arrive

## Table of contents

```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
:name: mastertoc
:numbered:

repo
scrape-locally
scrape
action
commit
notify
```

## About

This guide was prepared for [a training session](https://www.ire.org/product/nicar22-first-github-scraper/) at the [National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR)](http://data.nicar.org/)’s 2022 conference in Atlanta. The authors are [Iris Lee](http://irisslee.com/), [Aadit Tambe](https://aadittambe.com/) and [Ben Welsh](https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/). The tutorial is published as [open-source software](https://github.com/palewire/first-github-scraper/).