What the hell is Web Scrapping and Why should you care about it
You don’t need to manually do copy pasting large data once you learn web scrapping
Assume you want to make a list of prices of different products from an e-commerce website. What you can do is manually create an excel sheet and type every detail. The second option is to use web scrapping to extract large data from the website.
No doubt if you want a piece of information from the internet which is small you can directly copy and paste it manually but if you need data for your machine learning model then you can use web scraping instead.
Hence, it is an optimal way to create large datasets of information contained in a website efficiently, and automating such tasks will help you to gather data fast.
Underlying Mechanism
In short, till now you may have got a basic idea about what exactly web scrapping really is. To be more precise you can refer is as an automatic method to collect a large amount of data from the website.
It’s completely upon users what data they want to extract. What basically it does is extracts the data that is specially mentioned by the user very quickly.
