In this article, I’d like to share a quick guide of how to run Playwright inside AWS Lambda. There are a bunch of similar guides about Puppeteer, but only a few are about the successor from Microsoft.
Top Popular JavaScript Libraries for Web Scraping in 2024
We’d like to continue the sequence of our posts about Top 5 Popular Libraries for Web Scraping in 2024 with a new programming language - JavaScript.
JS is a quite well-known language with a great spread and community support. It can be used for both client and server web scraping scripting that makes it pretty suitable for writing your scrapers and crawlers.
Most of these libraries' advantages can be received by web scraping API and some of these libraries can be used in stack with it.
So let’s check them out.
Top 5 Popular Python Libraries for Web Scraping in 2024
It is a well-known fact that Python is one of the most popular programming languages for data mining and Web Scraping. There are tons of libraries and niche scrapers around the community, but we’d like to share the 5 most popular of them.
Most of these libraries' advantages can be received by web scraping API and some of these libraries can be used in stack with it.
AngularJS site scraping. The easy deal with Puppeteer and Headless Chrome.
AngularJS is a quite common framework for building modern Single Page Applications, but what about the ability to scrape sites based on it? Let’s find out.
Amazon Product Scraping. Relatively Easy.
In the current article, I’d like to share my experience with Amazon products scraping. The well-known Amazon marketplace offers the best deals for thousands of product types and from thousands of sellers. The potential amount of data to scrape is quite insane and can be used for:
- Market price comparison
- Price change tracking
- Analyzing product reviews
- Copyright check
- Finding the best products for selling or dropshipping
- A lot of data science and machine learning stuff
What is Web Scraping? A Special Guide.
Web Scraping, also known as web data extraction, is the process of retrieving or “scraping” data from a website. Data displayed by most websites can only be viewed using a web browser. Most websites do not provide the option to save the data which they display to your local storage, or to your own website. This is where a Web Scraping software like ScrapingAnt comes in handy.