My go-to language for web scraping is Python, as it has well-integrated libraries that can generally handle all of the functionality required. And sure enough, a Selenium library exists for Python.

But it quickly graduates to general-purpose web scraping and even web automation. These techniques can be very useful for testing browser-based applications, too.

To get us started, you will need to start a new Python3 project with and install Scrapy (a web scraping and web crawling library for Python). I’m using pipenv for this tutorial, but you can use ...

Key Takeaways Web scraping lets data scientists access real-time and large-scale data from the web.It's crucial for machine ...