Okuzeka
Data Science & Analytics vocabulary · Data Collection and Cleaning

Web scraping

Meaning in data science & analytics, with examples

nounCommon term

In data science & analytics, web scraping means: Collecting data automatically from websites with a program that downloads pages and extracts the parts you need, such as prices or product names.

In Turkish: web kazıma, veri kazıma

How it is used

You scrape a site or build a scraper, often with tools such as Beautiful Soup or Scrapy. Many sites limit scraping in their terms of use, and personal data is protected by laws such as GDPR and KVKK. An official API is usually preferred when one exists.

Example sentences

  1. We collected competitor prices through web scraping until they released a public API.

  2. The web scraping job broke because the site changed its page layout.

Common collocations

  • web scraping script
  • scrape a website
  • build a scraper
  • scraped data
  • data sourceAny place that data comes from, such as a database, an app, a spreadsheet, a survey, an external API or a file sent by a partner.
  • raw dataData in the form in which it was first collected or exported, before anyone has cleaned, combined or summarised it.
  • data cleaningThe process of finding and fixing problems in data, such as wrong formats, typos, duplicates and missing values, so that it can be trusted for analysis.
  • event trackingRecording specific user actions in an app or website, such as clicks, page views or purchases, as events with details like time, user and device.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

More terms: Data Collection and Cleaning

Practise with graded reading

Reading at the right level is the fastest way to make new words stick. Pick free English books by level: