Internet has abundance of data but very small percentage of it is available in easily consumable format i.e. data is not available for download easily. If the data is of small size, we can copy it from web and do our analysis but what if data size is huge and its very cumbersome to manually copy and paste the data. This is where web scraping comes into picture.

What is Web Scraping?

Web scraping is the process of collecting or extracting data from the web. It’s also known as crawling, spidering and web harvesting sometimes. Simply copying data from internet can also be termed…