[Scraping]
- extracting and collecting data from a website for your personal use
Scraping Open Graph:
- What is Open Graph?
- an internet protocol that was originally created by Meta (previously known as Facebook) to standardize the use of metadata within a webpage to represent the content of a page (cited from freeCodeCamp).
- It's the small card-thingy that appears when you share a link with your friends through (almost any type of) messengers/Twitter/Facebook.
Recommended Tool: cheerio
[Crawling]
- Crawling is an act of repeating scraping.
- vs. Scraping:
- Web Crawling: usually captures generic information (ANY information -> index them)
- Web Scraping: extracts SPECIFIC data set snippets
Recommended Tool: puppeteer
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