Web Scraping

Prerna Badgujar
Name:Prerna Madhukar Badgujar
Roll No:71
Semester:Third
Seminar Title:Web Scraping
Branch:Computer Engineering
Guidance Of:Mr.Vikas Narkhede Sir
Content
1. Introduction
2. Uses of Web Scraping
3. Tool for Web Scraping
4. Architecture
5. Application Of Web Scraping
6. Advantages and Disadvantages
7. Conclusion
8. Reference
1.Introduction
Web scraping is a technique to fetch data from websites.
While surfing on the web, many websites don’t allow the user
to save data for personal use. One way is to manually copy-
paste the data, which both tedious and time-consuming. Web
Scraping is the automation of the data extraction process from
websites. This event is done with the help of web scraping
software known as web scrapers. They automatically load and
extract data from the websites based on user requirements.
These can be custom built to work for one site or can be
configured to work with any website.
Uses of Web Scraping: Web scraping finds many uses both at
a professional and personal level. Having different needs at
different levels, some popular uses of web scraping are.
 Brand Monitoring and Competition Analysis
 Machine Learning
 Financial Data Analysis
 Social Media Analysis
 SEO monitoring
Tool for Web Scraping: Web Scraping tools are specifically
developed for extracting data from the internet. Also, known as
web harvesting tools or data extraction tools, they are useful for
anyone trying to collect specific data from websites as they
provide the user with structured data extracting data from a
number of websites. Some of the most popular Web Scraping
tools are:
 Webhose.io
 Dexi.io
 Import.io
 Scrapinghub
 Parsehub
Architecture of web scraping
Applications of web scraping
 Social media sentiment analysis
The shelf life of social media posts is very little, however, when looked at
collectively they show valuable trends.
 eCommerce pricing
Many eCommerce sellers often have their products listed on multiple
marketplaces.
 Investment opportunities
Real estate investors often want to know about promising neighborhoods they
can invest in. While there are multiple ways to get this data, web scraping travel
marketplaces and hospitality brokerage websites offer valuable information.
Advantages of Web Scraping
1. Cost-Effective
2. Low Maintenance and Speed
3. Data Accuracy
4. Easy to Implement

Disadvantages of Web Scraping

1. Data Analysis of Data Retrieved through Scraping the Web
2. Difficult to Analyze
3. Speed and Protection Policies
CONCLUSION
In today’s era, one can find the emergence of a new paradigm in every couple
of years, so is the emergence of web scraping. This paradigm has its roots in
the requirement of analysis of structured as well as unstructured data. There
are various aspects related to web scraping. Some of them have been
discussed in this paper. Initially we have discussed various applications of
web scraping. Later we hope to expand our knowledge on these tools and
come up with a prototype.
References:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org
https://www.chrome.com
https://www.google.com
https://www.research.com
Thank You