Beginners Guide for Web Scraping Using Selenium

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Data experts and researchers often require exact and retrieving data from unconventional sites to train or test algorithms, build datasets, machine learning models, neural networks, etc. However, the website contributes APIs that are an awe-inspiring way to retrieve structured data. But what if there is the absence of an API when you want to bypass the method.

Under such situations, the data can easily be managed through the web page. But the conventional method is highly time-consuming and cumbersome; it becomes more challenging when you have to bargain with websites such as lodge booking, real estate, work listing, etc., as they need to be accessed frequently. However, Selenium allows a computerized method through various models to fetch the information from the website and obtain whatever you want. But before going deep with the process, let’s understand web scraping as well as Selenium in detail.

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