Web scraping is a technique used to extract data from websites. Web scraping is also called as Web harvesting or Web data extraction.

1. How Does Web Scraping Services
Work
Web scraping is a technique used to extract data from websites. Web scraping is also called as
Web harvesting or Web data extraction. Web scraping can be done

2. manually or by using a software. Web scraping is used for contact scraping, to gather real estate
listings, to monitor online price changes, for weather data monitoring, website change detection,
product review scraping, tracking online reputation, Web data integration, Web mash up and
research.
Working
Web scraping a Web page involves fetching it and extracting it. Fetching the page is done by
downloading it. Web crawling is done to fetch pages for Web scraping. After fetching the Web
page, the content of the page is parsed, searched and thedata is reformatted and copied. The
pages are Web crawled regularly, so that, new pages are fetched for later processing. Web
scraping services can Web crawl, extract, monitor and refine the fetched data. They then convert
the data into a ready to use form. Web scraping services use high end technologies and makes
outsourcing, a better option for most of the companies. A Web scraper is an Application
Programming Interface (API) to extract data from a website. Application Programming Interface
are a set of subroutine definitions, communication protocols and rules for building a software.
Since Web pages are built of text based mark-up language like HTML, and contain useful data in
text form, the Web scraping service creates a mechanism to get the HTML code. The DOM
structures of the website are then monitored to identify the nodes containing target data. After the
identification of the nodes containing target data, a node processor is created to output the data in
a normalized format. The node processor can be changed in accordance to the client’s
requirements and data processing preferences. The system receives an URL at the input and
outputs normalized data. Based on the URL, the server decides which reader should process it,
prioritizing the highest quality reader with proper customization. In the absence of a priority reader,
the URL is forwarded to a default reader, which is either the most stable reader or a third party
device. There is also a feedback support, implemented by the Web scraping server to promptly
receive complaints if there is any low quality content. This is performed to ensure the high quality
of the content. Newer forms of Web scraping involves listening to data feeds from Web servers.
Techniques
Web scraping involves automatically collecting or extracting data from the world wide Web. Some
of the techniques involved in Web scraping are

3. • Manual copy and paste
• Text pattern matching
• HTTP programming
• HTML parsing
• DOM parsing
Conclusion
Web scraping services are used to extract information from websites.
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