what is scraping

Web scraping, also known as web harvesting or web data extraction, is the process of extracting data from websites. This can be done manually by a software user, but it typically refers to automated processes implemented using a bot or web crawler. Web scraping involves fetching a web page and extracting data from it. The content of a page may be parsed, searched, and reformatted, and 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. Web scraping is used for a variety of purposes, including lead generation, real estate listing scraping, and price scraping. Python is a popular language for web scraping, and there are several libraries and frameworks available for this purpose, including Scrapy and Beautiful Soup. Data scraping, in general, refers to a technique in which a computer program extracts data from output generated from another program.