I was running a competitive analysis project last month, scraping product prices across different regions. Being budget-conscious, I started with free proxies—and quickly learned a painful lesson.

Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...