Dec. 26, 2023, 7:10 a.m. | Vineet Prasad

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With the never-ending demand for data extraction and its tools, an increase in the amount of data that needs to be researched, analyzed, and extracted has been observed. Two major data-extracting tools that have been the talk of the town are API (application programming interface) scraping and web scraping. Both tools are believed to be two sides of the same coin, with some choosing API scraping over web scraping or vice versa.

Through this article, we will put both theories …

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