academic-web-scraping
Ethical web scraping and API-based data collection for research
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-web-scraping --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Academic Web Scraping Guide ## Overview Research often requires collecting data from the web -- whether it is bibliographic metadata from academic databases, experimental datasets from public repositories, social media posts for computational social science, or economic indicators from government portals. Web scraping and API-based data collection are essential skills for modern researchers acro
What does the academic-web-scraping skill do?
Ethical web scraping and API-based data collection for research
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-web-scraping --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, a repository with 3,244 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.