Web Scraping In A Nutshell: The How, When, And Why Answered | OxyCast #1

The first episode of OxyCast covers the basics of web scraping and answers general questions about data gathering. Having a good understanding of how it all works, both from business and especially from the development side, we’re thrilled to help you decide whether it’s worth it to start web scraping and what you need to know before doing it.
The host of OxyCast – Augustinas Kalvis (Software Developer at Oxylabs), and the first guest – Aleksandras Šulženko (Product Owner at Oxylabs), discusses:

- Why do we need web scraping?
- What are the most commonly used definitions in web scraping?
- What do people do with scraped data?
- Why buy a scraper if you can build one?
- How difficult is web scraping actually?

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