Web Scraping

The web has more data than any API exposes. Prices, job listings, research papers, stock data — all of it is sitting inside HTML elements waiting to be extracted. Web scraping is the skill of going in and getting it out cleanly.

// raw HTML source
<div class="product">
  <h2 class="name">Laptop Pro X</h2>
  <span class="price">$1,299</span>
  <div class="rating">4.8/5</div>
</div>
// extracted & cleaned
name "Laptop Pro X"
price 1299.00
rating 4.8
currency "USD"
200 OK — parsed in 34ms