Try web scraping any url of your choice to see if that url can be web scraped.
Data scrapers are used to find data from websites. The Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser can be used to access the World Wide Web. The term “web scraper” refers to automated processes that are implemented using a bot or web crawler. It is a way of copying data from the web into a central database or spreadsheet for later analysis. A web page can be scrapped by fetching it and getting it out of it. When a user views a page, a browser downloads the page. To fetch pages for later processing, web crawling is a main component of web scraper. It takes place once fetched. The data from a page may be copied into a spreadsheet or loaded into a database. Web scrapers take something out of a page and use it for another purpose. An example of this would be finding and copying names and phone numbers to a list.
Web scrapers can be used as a component of applications for web mining and data mining, online price change monitoring and price comparison, real estate listings, weather data monitoring, website change detection, research, tracking and more. A lot of useful data can be found in text form on web pages built using text-based mark up languages. Most web pages are designed for human users. Tools and software have been developed to assist in the search of web pages.
Monitoring data feeds from the web server is one of the newer forms of web scraper. The transport mechanism between the client and the web server can be used with the help of JSON. Some websites use methods to stop web scrapers from crawling their pages. In response, there are web scrapers that use techniques such as computer vision and natural language processing to mimic human browsing to gather web page content for offline processing.