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Web scraping

Web scraping

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Web scraping

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- Web scraping is a technique used to automatically gather information from websites. Instead of manually copying and pasting data, web scraping allows you to use software to extract large amounts of information, quickly and efficiently. For instance, you might scrape product listings from an e-commerce site to track price changes or collect data from multiple news sources to analyze current trends. Web scraping can save time and effort when you need to work with a lot of web-based data. Web scraping has practical applications across industries. Marketing teams might scrape social media profiles to gather insights on customer preferences, while real estate companies could scrape property listings to evaluate the market. But before you go out there and try to do some web scraping yourself, I'd like to provide a couple of warnings. First, it's essential to ensure that web scraping is done ethically and legally, as some…

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