WEB SCRAPING
WEB SCRAPING Web scraping is Data Scraping used for extracting data from websites. It is also known as Web harvesting, Web data Extraction. It is basically copying where specific data is gathered and copied from the web, to a database or a spreadsheet for Data Analysis. Web scraping a web page involves fetching it and extracting from it. Fetching is the downloading of a page (which a browser does when a user views a page). Therefore, web crawling is a main component of web scraping, to fetch pages for later processing. Once fetched, then extraction can take place.The content of a page may be parsed, searched, reformatted, its data copied into a spreadsheet or loaded into a database. Web scrapers typically take something out of a page, to make use of it for another purpose somewhere else. An example would be to find and copy names and telephone numbers, or companies and their URLs, or e-mail addresses to a list (contact scraping). Click here to go through the example of Web Sc