On July 6, 2023, Twitter's parent company X sued four anonymous individuals for `` scraping and damaging Twitter user data''. In a complaint filed in federal district court in Dallas County, Texas ...

Crawling is the process of finding and indexing all of the URLs on a website, while scraping is the process of extracting specific data from those URLs.

Basically, it seems that scraping can be done using any programming language, but the nature article introduces a combination of Python and its libraries Requests and BeautifulSoup .

When done right, web scraping is a powerful tool that can give businesses a competitive edge in today’s data-driven world.

Twitter — or more precisely, its parent company X Corp. — has sued four John Does who have allegedly "engaged in widespread unlawful scraping of data" from the website. They were described as ...

Data scraping, also known as web scraping, is the automated process of extracting data from websites, using specialised software or programming tools.