Find the URL that you want to scrape.Inspecting the Page.Find the data you want to extract.Write the code.Run the code and extract the data.Store the data in the required format.

Is it legal to scrape a website?

It is perfectly legal if you scrape data from websites for public consumption and use it for analysis. However, it is not legal if you scrape confidential information for profit. For example, scraping private contact information without permission, and sell them to a 3rd party for profit is illegal.

Why Python is best for web scraping?

It combines the speed and power of Element trees with the simplicity of Python. It works well when we’re aiming to scrape large datasets. The combination of requests and lxml is very common in web scraping. It also allows you to extract data from HTML using XPath and CSS selectors.