Why Web Scraping?

Web scrapers are excellent at gathering and processing large amounts of data. A well-developed web scraper can chart the cost of a flight to Boston over time. Market forecasting, machine language translation, and even medical diagnostics have benefited tremendously from the ability to retrieve and analyze data from news sites, translated texts, and health forums. There is almost always a way web scraping can guide business practices more effectively, improve productivity, or even branch off into a brand-new field entirely. The 2006 project “We Feel Fine” by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, scraped a variety of English-language blog sites for phrases starting with “I feel” or ” me feeling” This led to a popular data visualization, describing how the world was feeling day by day and minute by minute.

Web Scraping with Python