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· 5 min read
Oleg Kulyk

HTML Parsing Libraries - JavaScript

HTML is a simple structured markup language and everyone who is going to write the web scraper should deal with HTML parsing. The goal of this article is to help you to find the right tool for HTML processing. We are not going to present libraries for more specific tasks, such as article extractors, product extractors, or web scrapers.

· 4 min read
Oleg Kulyk

Top 5 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.

· 5 min read
Oleg Kulyk

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.

· 4 min read
Oleg Kulyk

Amazon product scraping

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

· 5 min read
Oleg Kulyk

What is web scraping?

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.