The Internet provides the means for the exchange of vast amounts of data. The various kinds and uses of this data range from online shopping, checking up on old friends, listening to music, research and far beyond. One of the most popular methods of data exchange is by using web browsers to communicate with websites using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). If you’ve ever opened Chrome to check stock prices, news, or watch YouTube videos you have used a web browser to visit a website on the World Wide Web.
Websites offer a large amount and variety of data most of which is optimized for consumption by users viewing the data through their web browsers. Viewing data through a web browser is quite useful but often times it’s helpful to organize this data outside of the browser to analyze it for patterns, model it, and see how it changes over time. Web Scrapers, like ScrapeMate, enable people to extract the data that’s most relevant to them and organize it more useful ways, often in tables and spreadsheets.