Python: Data Scraping

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This guide should help you to understand how Web Scraping works.

In general, websites typically utilize libraries, frameworks, or tools such as Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, or Selenium for data scraping tasks.

These tools assist in fetching web pages, extracting data, and parsing HTML or XML content. Some websites may rely on APIs to retrieve data in a structured format if they are available.

Data extraction from websites usually involves fetching HTML content and utilizing techniques like HTML parsing to identify relevant data elements and extract the desired information. The handling of data extraction from databases or other sources may vary depending on the specific implementation. Algorithms or techniques employed to parse and structure the scraped data can range from basic HTML parsing to more advanced approaches like regular expressions or machine learning-based methods, depending on the complexity and structure of the data being scraped.