July 26, 2023, 6:30 a.m. | Vineet Prasad

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Web scraping, also known as data extraction or data scraping, is a way of obtaining structured data in a spreadsheet or database from unstructured HTML data using intelligence automation approaches.


Data extraction from the internet can be legal or criminal. Extraction of publicly available data is not illegal. In other words, you can scrape any data on the web as long as the data is publicly available and you are not breaching the terms and conditions of the website you …

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