Introduction
Web scraping is the process in which you can extract public data from the website. The public data can be anything of the site. The web crawling and web pages readability are sometimes defined by using the term “web scraping”. Scrape Owl is a simple web scraping and data extraction API that helps in sending requests specifying the website and its elements you want to scrape.
Web scraping is the process of scraping and extracting the public data from the website so that it can be used for some purpose. But there are some chances of getting blocked while scraping the web. That’s where Scrape owl comes to help.
In this tutorial, we will take a look on how web scraping works, what is web scraping used for, and how to get started with scrape owl.
What is web scraping used for?
The uses of web scraping for business and personal requirements are endless. Each business or individual has own specific needs for gathering data. We are discussing few of the common usage scenarios for web scraping and web crawling.
- Real time analytics
Many science projects require real-time or near real-time data for analytics. This can be helped by using APIs to crawl the websites. API crawls the…