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Web Scraping & Web Scraping Software
If you are a total newbie in this area, you can find more sources about web scraping at the end of this blog. Simply put, web scraping (also termed web data extraction, screen scraping, or web harvesting) is a technique of extracting data from websites. It turns web data scattered across pages into structured data that can be stored in your local computer in a spreadsheet or transmitted to a database.
It can be difficult to build a web scraper for people who don’t know anything about coding. Luckily, there is web scraping software available for people with or without programming skills. Also, if you’re a data scientist or a researcher, using a web scraper definitely raises your working effectiveness in data collection.
Here is a list of the 30 most popular web scraping software. I just put them together under the umbrella of software, while they range from open-source libraries and browser extensions to desktop software and more.
