What is Web Scraping?


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Screenshot of the Parliament of Canada website (Top)Screenshot of the Parliament of Canada websitei (Bottom)


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Screenshot of the UK House of Commons website
Screenshot of the UK House of Commons website

Anatomy of a web page


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Screenshot of a simple website with the previews HTML

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Screenshot of a simple website with the previews HTML
The Document Object Model (DOM) that represents an HTML document with a tree structure. Source: Wikipedia. Author: Birger Eriksson

Manually scrape data using browser extensions


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Blue Carpentries hex person logo with no text.
You belong in The Carpentries!