What is "scraping"

Web scraping (web harvesting or web data extraction) is data scraping used for extracting data from websites.[1] Web scraping software may access the World Wide Web directly using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or through a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to automated processes implemented using a bot or web crawler. It is a form of copying, in which specific data is gathered and copied from the web, typically into a central local database or spreadsheet, for later retrieval or analysis.

Web scraping a web page involves fetching it and extracting from it.[1][2] Fetching is the downloading of a page (which a browser does when you view the page). Therefore, web crawling is a main component of web scraping, to fetch pages for later processing. Once fetched, then extraction can take place. The content of a page may be parsed, searched, reformatted, its data copied into a spreadsheet, and so on. Web scrapers typically take something out of a page, to make use of it for another purpose somewhere else. An example would be to find and copy names and phone numbers, or companies and their URLs, to a list (contact scraping).

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SpoonFeeder said:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping

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SimpleSiteSolutions said:

An automatic program that searches the web for specific information. Links, emails, etc. and collects the data.

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johnny4k said:

Use Google dude, rather than posting thread here and waiting for reply , you could have answer in no time

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wizeman said:

And can someone explain how scraping is helpful from an SEO standpoint?

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wizeman said:

And can someone explain how scraping is helpful from an SEO standpoint?

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mr5p0ck said:

I gotyour back. A lot of scraping has to do with copying and pasting data as we see it. Hit me up. I'm cool woth giving you the ropes...

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