What is Web Scraping? Web Scraping is known by many other names, depending on how a company likes to call it, Screen Scraping, Web Data Extraction, Web Harvesting and more, is a technique employed to extract large amounts of data from websites. Web scraping is a term for various methods used to collect information from across the Internet. Generally, this is done with software that simulates human Web surfing to collect specified bits of information from different websites. Web scraping is about downloading structured data from the web, selecting some of that data, and passing along what you selected to another process. Web scraping is essentially a form of data mining. Items like weather reports, auction details, market pricing, or any other list of the collected data can be sought in Web scraping efforts. Data displayed by most websites can only be viewed using a web browser. They do not offer the functionality to save a copy of this data for personal use. Th