What is Web Scraping?
Also known as: Web Data Extraction
Programmatically extracting structured data from websites.
Web scraping is the automated extraction of data from websites, typically by sending HTTP requests and parsing the returned HTML or JSON. It powers price intelligence, SEO monitoring, market research, and AI training datasets. At scale, scraping requires proxies to distribute requests across many IPs and avoid blocks, plus careful handling of rate limits, CAPTCHAs, and dynamic content. Responsible scraping respects robots directives, rate limits, and applicable laws.
Related terms
Proxy Pool
The collection of available IP addresses a provider can route through.
Rate Limiting
Capping how many requests an IP or user may send in a time window.
CAPTCHA
A challenge designed to distinguish humans from automated traffic.
SERP (Search Engine Results Page)
The page of results a search engine returns for a query.