Web scraping

The process of extracting data from websites, either manually or automatically using bots or web crawlers. Web scraping techniques include HTML parsing, DOM parsing, XPath, and API interactions, with tools like BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium, and Puppeteer commonly used. It is particularly useful for tasks such as price monitoring, market research, and content aggregation, benefiting businesses and researchers who need large-scale data collection.