What is Webscraping?

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Webscraping is a computer software technique of extracting information from a website. You can access this data using a csv format or via an Application Programming Interface (API). This technique usually focuses on the transformation of unstructured data such as HTML formats on the web or structured data such as databaces or spreadsheets.

If you use this technique, please be respectful and site your source.

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