How to Extract Data to Your Database via API

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Today let’s talk about web API: what an API is, how it is used in data extraction and what you can achieve with it.

0:00 What is an API?
API stands for Application programming interface. Some websites provide APIs for users to fetch part of the web data.

0:53 Data extraction with API
One misconception is that API can extract data. It’s not completed true because it’s only responsible to retrieve the data according to the dedicated resources. In most cases, you’ll only get what you request.

3:29 Octoparse Standard API

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This video was originated from our blog “Web Scraping API for Data Extraction: A Beginner's Guide”


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[wegder]

Data-harvesting is so cool, I love my masters.

[jeanpeuplu]

Too bad that you cannot export the Python code so that you can edit it to parse as you want.

[richardmiranda]

I thought this video suposed to show me how to do so... not to buy from someone, lol

[retrofuturst]

I'll check out Octoparse, I was looking to know more about the fundamentals of API data extraction using actual code, did not expect to run into an shadow ad for a web gui

[nananyarko]

Great info but you didn't answer the main question of how to use the API to extract into a database as per your title

[mariusbotezatu]

Can I extract the data using an API and then export to my database without installing the software ? Because I don't want to have my computer on, all the time.