Web Scraping with Google Cloud Platform
As more and more businesses post content, pricing, and other information on their websites, information is more important than ever in today’s digital age. Web scraping—also commonly referred to as web harvesting or web extracting—is the act of extracting information from websites all around the internet, and it’s becoming so common that some companies have separate terms and conditions for automated data collection. There are multiple approaches to web-scraping , which range from humans manually accessing a website with the intent of copying information, to automatic scraping through the use of web-scrapers. Web-scrapers are programs written with the goal to programmatically access websites and collect information in an automated fashion. An approach that is sometimes used by web-scrapers is loading websites and saving their page sources (raw HTML). After saving the page sources, other programs can attempt to extract information such as names, phone numbers, addresses, e