Top +5 Best Websites for Learning Web Scraping

These slides are posted on my Stanford page if you want to follow along: http://stanford.edu/~vbauer/VAMScrapingSlides.html

Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites.[1] Web scraping software may access the World Wide Web directly using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or through a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to automated processes implemented using a bot or web crawler. It is a form of copying, in which specific data is gathered and copied from the web, typically into a central local database or spreadsheet, for later retrieval or analysis.

Learn an indispensable part of data science known as data wrangling, a process that involves converting raw data to formats needed for further analysis.