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Web Scraping In A Nutshell: The How, When, And Why Answered | Episode 1

In the #1 episode of OxyCast, the host – Augustinas Kalvis (Software Developer at Oxylabs), and the first guest – Aleksandras Šulženko (Product Owner at Oxylabs), discusses:

  • Why do we need web scraping?
  • What are the most commonly used definitions in web scraping?
  • What do people do with scraped data?
  • Why buy a scraper if you can build one?
  • How difficult is web scraping actually?

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