Is it possible to scrape data in 2 clicks? Scraping can really be a headache. There are so many sites, extracting information from which is not an obvious task. Sometimes we want to have ready-made templates for scraping – “click and use” – without any settings or reading the documentation. For example, the popular AliExpress […]
Legality of data scraping — the hammer makers mystery
Data scraping is an activity on the verge of law, which has its own features and nuances. And if one day you wake up and realize that it’s time to get a bunch of fresh data, then it’s time to understand how legitimate this action is. The legality of data scraping it’s a basic thing […]
What is data scraping?
Data mining, or as it is called, data extraction, is the process of extracting data from some website and exporting this data in some structured format. When we talk about the structured form, we mean a conditional “table” of data, or a library of the type “Key – value”. For various reasons, at some point […]
What is a CSS selector
The CSS selector is a special expression used to address nodes in an HTML page. Using CSS selector, you can easily point the program to a specific block on the page. Many data scraping applications, including our application, actively use CSS selectors. Thus, knowing how selectors work, you can quickly set up very many of […]