It’s an automatic method to obtain large amounts of datasets from websites. Most of this data is unstructured data in an HTML which is then exported into a format that is more useful to the users for example you can use scraping to export the list of products names and prices from e-commerce platform into a excel although web scraping can be done manually.
A more advanced type of scraping is database scraping. Conceptually this is similar to site scraping except that hackers will create a bot which interacts with a target site’s application to retrieve data from its database.
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