Syndication How to use Python and Selenium to scrape websites July 22, 2020 - 11:00 am Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born.

When done right, web scraping is a powerful tool that can give businesses a competitive edge in today’s data-driven world.

What to know about web scraping Web scraping is usually an automated process, but it doesn't have to be; data can be scraped from websites manually, by humans, though that's slow and inefficient.

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.