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If you are interested in web scraping as a hobby or you might already have a few scripts extracting data but are not familiar with Scrapy then this article is meant for you.

It's a 21st-century truism that web data touches virtually every aspect of our daily lives. We create, consume, and interact with it while we’re working, shopping, traveling, and relaxing. It’s not surprising that web data makes the difference for companies to innovate and get ahead of their competitors. But how to extract data from a website? And what’s this thing called ‘web scraping’?

Handling javascript objects is an important skill for any web data extraction developer.

Web data touches every aspect of our lives. We create, consume and interact with it while we’re working, shopping, travelling and relaxing.

If you haven’t read the previous parts of our Practical guide to web data QA, here are the first part, second part, third part and fourth part of the series.

Article extraction is the process of extracting data fields from an article page and putting it into a machine-readable structured format like JSON. In many use cases, the article page that you want to extract is a news page but it can be any other type of article.

If you haven’t read the previous ones, here’s the first part, the second and third part of the series.

Imagine a long crawling process, like extracting data from a website for a whole month. We can start it and leave it running until we get the results.

The web is complex and constantly changing. It is one of the reasons why web data extraction can be difficult, especially in the long term.

In case you missed them, here’s the first part and second part of the series.

We are excited to announce our next Zyte Automatic Extraction API: Product Reviews API (Beta). Using this API, you can get access to product reviews in a structured format, without writing site-specific code.