Web Scraping Using Puppeteer: A Beginner’s Guide
Ever realized the need to access data from a website but found it difficult to access it in a structured format? Well, Web Scraping is used to solve these types of issues. It is a technique of extracting data from any public website and using that data by storing it locally or showing it in the form of live data in our application. In this process, we are sending a crawler that automatically crawls all the data from the provided website. Node js provides many such libraries for web scraping such as Axios for fetching API responses, or Nightmare or Puppeteer for advanced scraping such as automation or skip captchas, etc. In this blog, we will be discussing how to use Puppeteer in data scraping from the web which is a free web scraping tool. NOTE: Kindly make sure you’re doing web scraping on websites that allow it without disturbing any company norms or privacy measures. What is Puppeteer & Why It is Used? How To Use Puppeteer For Web Scraping? ( async () => { con...