web scrapping

8th May 2021

What is Web Scraping?

The technology of obtaining web data by extracting it from the pages of web resources is called scraping. Web scraping can be done manually by a computer user, however, the term usually refers to automated processes implemented using code that executes GET requests to the target site. Scraping is used to syntactically transform web pages into more user-friendly forms. Web pages are created using text markup languages (HTML and XHTML) and contain a lot of useful data in the code. However, most web resources are intended for end-users, not for the convenience of automatic use, so technology has been developed that “cleans” […]