WEB SCRAPING TECHNOLOGY

SITHIHALITHA S
3 min readJun 14, 2021

BEST WEB SCRAPING TECHNOLOGY

Web scraping is the popular data collection method used by companies to collect data from internet. Web scraping also known as web extraction, data scraping, web harvesting etc. But their goals are same to get data from the web and store it in your local or cloud storage for further processing or analytics.

OVERALL ANALYSIS OF WEB SCRAPING TOOLS

*The above chart details are taken from google. Global Web Scraper Software Market to surpass USD 196.88 million by 2030 from USD 149.09 million in 2018 at a CAGR of 3.75% throughout the forecast period, i.e., 2019–30

1. SCRAPY

Scrapy is one of the more accessible tools, it makes crawling and scraping your website easy and simple. Scrapy is a powerful Python website crawling and scraping framework. It provides many functions for asynchronous loading, editing and saving of web pages.

2.TAGUI

TagUI is an open-source and suitable to all platform command-line RPA tool that provides you the capabilities to automate your desktop, web, mouse, and keyboard actions easily.

3.HTML AGILITY PACK(HAP)

Html Agility Pack(HAP) is a free and open source library that parses HTML documents and creates a Document Object Model (DOM) that can be navigated manually or using XPath expressions. Html Agility Pack(HAP) is a good tool that can easily crawl and scrape the websites.

4.SELENIUM

Selenium is a portable framework for testing web applications, it is mainly used for industrial testing, but it can also be used for web scraping. Selenium runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is open-source software released under the Apache License 2.0.

5.APIFY JS

APIFY-JS is a free and open source library that makes it easy to develop web crawlers, scrapers, data extractors, and network automation tasks. It provide tools to automatically manage and expand a set of independent browsers, support URL queue scanning, and save the scanning results to the local file system or the cloud, rotating agents, etc.

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SITHIHALITHA S

working as a Data Engineer in Optisol Business Solution