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What is web scraping?

Web scraping is the process of collecting structured web data in an automated fashion. It’s also called web data extraction. Some of the   main use cases of web scraping   include price monitoring,   price intelligence , news monitoring,   lead generation , and   market research   among many others. In general, web data extraction is used by people and businesses who want to make use of the vast amount of publicly available web data to make smarter decisions. If you’ve ever copied and pasted information from a website, you’ve performed the same function as any web scraper, only on a microscopic, manual scale. Unlike the mundane, mind-numbing process of manually extracting data, web scraping uses intelligent automation to retrieve hundreds, millions, or even billions of data points from the internet’s seemingly endless frontier. How do you use a data scraper? Whether you’re using a data scraper tool yourself or outsourcing the job to a web data extraction sp...