Web Scraping Unlocked: Your Ultimate FAQ Guide | Oxylabs

Опубликовано: 09 Октябрь 2024
на канале: Oxylabs

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If you're considering web scraping but feeling overwhelmed by a lot of information about it, it's completely normal to feel that way. It's a challenging process, so finding out the most important aspects from the beginning is better. Make sure to check our products for public data collection
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With the help of our professional team, in this video, Iveta will answer the most common questions about web scraping.
The video starts with an explanation of one of the most debatable topics – the legality of web scraping. To understand the legal aspects of web scraping, you can also read our in-depth article:
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Next, you’ll learn how web scraping works, as well as what programming languages are the best for web scraping. Our Technical Team Lead, Eivydas Vilčinskas, recommends Python because it supports multithreading and asynchronous programming patterns and has many helpful libraries.
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To understand web scraping in-depth, in this video, we also discuss the most common libraries used for web scraping, how to identify the structure of a website, and how to handle dynamic content when web scraping.

Most beginners understand the purpose of web crawling and scraping wrong, so in this video, we dedicated some time to discussing these two processes and their differences. In the end of the video, we also discussed the application of web scraping as well as what types of public data you can gather. But in order to successfully collect information, you should respect each website's rules and make sure you're gathering publicly available and not copyrighted data.

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0:00 Introduction
0:30 Is web scraping legal?
1:37 How does web scraping work?
2:11 What programming languages can I use for web scraping?
3:04 What are the common libraries and tools used for web scraping?
4:23 How do I identify the structure of a website for web scraping?
5:08 How do I handle dynamic content when web scraping?
5:42 What’s the difference between web crawling and web scraping?
6:11 What are some common applications of web scraping?
7:04 What types of data can be scraped?
7:30 Conclusion

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