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Web scraping is the automated process of extracting large amounts of data from websites. It enables the quick gathering of information for research, monitoring, data analytics, and more.


This guide covers the basics of using Scrapy, a popular Python web scraping framework, to build a robust scraper for harvesting data.





Why Web Scraping is Useful


Some practical use cases include:

Price Monitoring - Track prices across e-commerce stores for market intelligence or optimization algorithms. Updates are more efficient than manual …

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