Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in semi-structured data

Why is it called web scraping?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 5, 2024

Web scraping refers to automated extraction of data from websites. It involves scraping semi-structured data from HTML in a programmatic way. Web scraping is used for price monitoring, lead generation, research, and more.

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