Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites.
Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to automated processes implemented using a bot or web crawler.
It is a form of copying in which specific data is gathered and copied from the web, typically into a central local database or spreadsheet, for later retrieval or analysis.
Web scraping APIs, sometimes known as web crawler APIs, are used to “scrape” data from the publicly available data on the Internet.
From ecommerce to real estate to stock trading, web scraping tools can provide updated data in near real-time for businesses as well as their developers.
In Web Scraping, most of the data is unstructured in the format of HTML which can easily be converted into a structured form of data just like we do in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets or a database.
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