User:Tash/grad prototyping

Prototyping Session 1 & 2

Every Redaction, by James Bridle

Possible topics to explore:

• anonymity
• creating safe, temporary, local networks (freedom of speech - freedom of connection!) http://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/sep/11/rest-in-peace-ethira-an-interview-with-amalia-ulman/
• censorship
• scraping, archiving
• documenting redactions
• steganography?
• meme culture

Learning to use Scrapy

Scrapy is an application framework for crawling web sites and extracting structured data which can be used for a wide range of useful applications, like data mining, information processing or historical archival. Even though Scrapy was originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs (such as Amazon Associates Web Services) or as a general purpose web crawler.

Documentation: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/index.html