Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may access the World Wide Web directly using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or through a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to automated processes implemented using a bot or web crawler. It is a form of copying, in which specific data is gathered and copied from the web, typically into a central local database or spreadsheet, for later retrieval or analysis.
By Julien Barbier, co-founder & CEO at Holberton School
This project is meant for educational purposes only
Many online contests make gathering votes a part of their process for choosing winners. The problem is that a lot of them are designed with flaws…
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Julian Mendez
