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Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide Implement the power of Go to scrape and crawl data from the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789615708
Length 132 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vincent Smith Vincent Smith
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What is web scraping?

Web scraping at, its core, is collecting publicly available information from the internet for a specific purpose. It has taken form under many different names, such as following:

  • Spiders
  • Crawlers
  • Bots

Although the name may carry a negative connotation, the practice of web scraping has been around since the beginning of the internet and has grown into various technologies and techniques. In fact, some companies have built their entire business on web scraping!

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Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide
Published in: Jan 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789615708
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