Webscraping and its technique

In this course, you will learn Web Scraping. This course is for beginners. If you are little familiar with the python syntax you can take this course. Web Scraping is a technique to extract data from a website. This information can be exported to other formats. Web scraping is very being an essential technique. How does web Scraper work? In the first step, the web scraper sends a request to the target website for the specific URL contents. The web scraper will have required one or more URLs to load before scraping.. The information is returned to the Web scraper in HTML format. In the next step, the web scraper will extract information according to the user’s requirements. If the user wants to scrape the full content of the webpage or the specific information on the webpage- for example, a user might want to scrape an Amazon product page in order to have an insight into the relevant prices and available models but are not particularly interested in the product reviews.

Finally, the web scraper will output all the data that has been collected into a format that is more useful to the user, usually in form of a CSV or Excel spreadsheet.