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Introduction to Web Scraping: Glossary

Key Points

Introduction
  • Webscraping is a way to get data from the internet.

Ethics of Web Scraping
  • Rule #1: Be Polite

HTTP, Browser Extensions, and APIs
  • APIs can be used to obtain data instead of web scraping

  • Different ways to web scrape directly from a web page include cut/paste from a rendered page, using a browser extension, and using a programming language such as Python.

Web Scraping with Python
  • Web scrape to save all csv files linked from an html page

Glossary

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