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Web Scrapping 101

  1. What is Sraping?

ans. Web Scraping (also termed Screen Scraping, Web Data Extraction, Web Harvesting etc.) is a technique employed to extract large amounts of data from websites whereby the data is extracted and saved to a local file in your computer or to a database.

  1. Why Scraping?

ans. Companies can't go through each of the websites and get data from each of them so there need to be automation to get the data for them. They use crawlers to get the work for them.

  1. Use of Scraping

ans. Data Scraping can be used in various places like the websites that compare between two objects(eg-.trivago.in).

  1. Scraping and Python(libraries and frameworks)

  2. Introduction to BeautifulSoup

  3. Basic script of BeautifulSoup

  4. Scrapy Introduction

  5. Terminal usage of Scrapy

  6. Basic Spider in Scrapy

  7. What can be further done with the data?

ans. The data can be used for a comaring website or a data set for Data Analysis to predict the future output.You may also get the website CSS and use it in your website to get the same template.