Definition of web scraping - Reverso English Dictionary

Noun

technology

TECH.

automated extraction of data from websites

TECH.

Web scraping is used to collect data from online sources.

data scraping

information gathering

TECH.

technique to gather information from web pages

TECH.

Many companies use web scraping to monitor competitors' prices.

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Examples of web scraping in a sentence

Web scraping can help in gathering large datasets efficiently.
Web scraping is essential for data-driven marketing strategies.
Researchers rely on web scraping to collect large datasets.

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French:extraction de données web, collecte de données web, ...
German:Web-Scraping, ...
Italian:web scraping, ...
Spanish:extracción de datos web, raspado web, ...
Portuguese:extração de dados da web, raspagem de dados, ...
Chinese:网页抓取, 数据采集, ...
Japanese:ウェブスクレイピング, 情報収集, ...
Arabic:اِسْتِخْرَاجُ الْبَيَانَاتِ, اِسْتِخْلَاصُ الْبَيَانَاتِ مِنَ الْوِيبْ, ...
Hebrew:סְקְרֵייפִּינְג, גִּירוּד אֲתָרִים, ...
Russian:веб-скрейпинг, ...
Ukrainian:веб-скрапінг, збирання інформації з вебсайтів, ...
Hindi:वेब स्क्रैपिंग, वेब डेटा निष्कर्षण, ...
Bengali:ওয়েব স্ক্র্যাপিং, ওয়েব পৃষ্ঠা থেকে তথ্য সংগ্রহের কৌশল, ...
Catalan:extracció de dades web, rastreig web, ...
Czech:web scraping, stahování dat z webu, ...
Danish:web scraping, webudtræk, ...
Dutch:webscraping, informatie verzamelen, ...
Greek:εξαγωγή δεδομένων από ιστοσελίδες, συλλογή δεδομένων από ιστοσελίδες, ...
Hungarian:webes adatkinyerés, webes adatgyűjtés, ...
Khmer:ការទាញយកទិន្នន័យពីវេបសាយ, ការទាញយកព័ត៌មានពីទំព័រវេបដោយស្វ័យប្រវត្តិ, ...
Korean:웹 스크래핑, 정보 수집, ...
Persian:استخراج داده از وب, وب‌کاوی, ...
Polish:web scraping, zbieranie informacji z internetu, ...
Portuguese (BR):extração de dados da web, raspagem de dados, ...
Romanian:extracție de date web, colectare de informații web, ...
Swedish:webbskrapning, webbinsamling, ...
Thai:เว็บสแครปปิง, การดึงข้อมูลจากเว็บไซต์, ...
Turkish:web kazıma, web bilgi toplama, ...
Vietnamese:trích xuất dữ liệu web, kỹ thuật thu thập thông tin từ các trang web, ...

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