Oct 3, 2021
3 min read
Why Web Scraping is Important
Especially for Data Science
Web scraping (aka web harvesting, web data extraction, or data mining) is the process of extracting data from the web.
Basically, it’s a way to collect data from the web through an agent that visits a website, downloads the page, parses the content (or understands it), and organizes data in an automated manner.
