Category: Laravel, PHP, api, nodejs, javascript

Web scraping is a technique used to extract useful information by analysing the HTML content of a website. Web scraping is useful in cases where you need to access the content of a website that does not provide API end points. You can find out more about how businesses use web scraping here and here.

To scrap a web page is as easy as making an Http request to a specific URL and analysing the HTML content.

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