What is Web Scraping and What is it Used For? | Definition and Examples EXPLAINED

Check out our starter guide on web scraping!

0:00 Intro
0:28 Web Scraping Explained
1:02 How web scrapers work
2:20 What can web scraping be used for?
2:54 best web scraper for you?

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[cluckendip]

I got banned from SteamDB for "scraping" so I had to find this video to actually understand what they thought I was doing. Nice video btw, very informative!

[rehanjamshed]

Very helpful, thanks for the clear video.

[simonrajk]

I really needed to scrape some data off the for content research and parsehub helped me beautifully. Thanks guys, and your help docs is brilliant.

[PIVOT]

This is a very clear content. THANK you very much bro...

[mishahappy]

Thank you so much. This tool really helped me lol. I actually thought of learning python just for webscraping until y'all came to my rescue

[Code_Play_com]

Very practical and helpful video with very detailed explanation!

[RomboutVersluijs]

Where do we need to Rach if we find errors in the help docs? I've found some issues with the get images from carousel, the examples don't work.

[louisecuento]

thanks i just learned a new skill
im an accounting graduate
i have no idea that something like this exists
thanks a ton!

[WillSmith-uipb]

This video communicates web scraping effectively

[granand]

Does parsehub extract the picklist of all the applications into a file without capturing the dom and using python reg ?

[DiceyJJ]

Which programs/languages do I need to learn for scraping and data analytics?

[spadhnik]

What is there is a part of long list displayed on a web page? Then can we get the entire list?

[heart-spur]

Will this extract images as well, for example from a amazon page. Or will it fetch only other details?

[BruceWayne-mfxf]

I'm bit confused....can a web scraper extract live data in to excel(live currency rates) with automatic refresh....(like Excel web query)?.

[AustinMac]

Can i extract hidden data with this tool, thekind of data that the sits dosen't want to show

[curtischadwell]

I just got finished doing this manually....good Lord it's a lot of stuff to keep track of.

[taranagnew]

what's the app your using to scrap?

[LeftistUprising]

What's the name of the webscraper that he's using in this demo?

[tabmax]

Would I be able to web scrape a list of every single restaurant in London?

[himalrawal]

folk i have been watching an advertisement since 3 min and was thinking something else