Author: Yann Cohen

A Fun Mini-Project: Scraping the R-Weekly Highlight Podcast This educational and open-source project involves scraping the R-Weekly highlight podcast. Users are encouraged to maintain ethical standards when accessing the information. If you find anything interesting, feel free to submit a PR or contact me! 😊

Please note that I am not an official member of the R-Weekly team. Everything you find here is unrelated to the podcast/weekly highlights team.

• r_weekly_podcast_scrape.R - the main script where all the scraping happens.

• r_weekly_podcast_scra[e_followup.R - a few simple follow-up analysis i have conducted. it's subject to changes and you are most welcome to get inspired and do new things!

• auto_workflow.R - this is just the activation file that is ran by auto workflow.yml.

• In data folder - all_data.* in three formats: JSON rds and xlsx with all the information regarding each episode:

  • episode duration

  • short & long description

  • transcript (when available)

  • chapters

  • links

R Weekly Highlights

Contact me

Note the tabs—each corresponds to a different part of the episode and can be easily joined via the primary key ep_name (episode name).

I am by no means a python programmer, but I played with it a bit (and some help from our dear GenAI agents) and created a few not very pleasent looking audio plots. I should probably do something with it...