What is web scraping?

Web scraping is the practice of copying content from other websites, either by means of an automatic process or manually. Scraped content is usually a mere copy of the original content from the original website. Scraped content is copied to be used in various other contexts.

Web scraping is also referred to as harvesting.

Automated web scraping happens by means of bots or crawlers.

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