If you can view data on a webpage then you can download it, save the page to your disk and use it. You can access each web page and save the page or copy paste data into another program and then use tools to get the data sorted.
It is easy to scrape data from website the laborious way or use tools for web scraping. Very few websites have security or protection against scraping in the form of rate limiting or constant monitoring for suspicious activity. The first thought that occurs is to use specific web APIs that will help access and download data but in that case you cannot do it anonymously. Some form of registration is required which means you are on record.
Doing it the hard way also means you have to navigate to the specific web page. Data here may be paginated. You look for the page offset parameters and then load pages accordingly or, if the facility is available, choose the “display data length” per page option to get your work done quickly. There are other ways such as using CSS hooks to navigate to the div container holding your desired data. Some will advise you to use HTML parsing to get to the data you want but again not all web pages are created equal so you will come up against problems. Addressing all these issues is more time consuming and ultimately expensive than going in for custom designed software expressly designed to extract web data. Simply specify the URL and parameters and it gets the job done in minutes.
It is easy to scrape data from website the laborious way or use tools for web scraping. Very few websites have security or protection against scraping in the form of rate limiting or constant monitoring for suspicious activity. The first thought that occurs is to use specific web APIs that will help access and download data but in that case you cannot do it anonymously. Some form of registration is required which means you are on record.
Doing it the hard way also means you have to navigate to the specific web page. Data here may be paginated. You look for the page offset parameters and then load pages accordingly or, if the facility is available, choose the “display data length” per page option to get your work done quickly. There are other ways such as using CSS hooks to navigate to the div container holding your desired data. Some will advise you to use HTML parsing to get to the data you want but again not all web pages are created equal so you will come up against problems. Addressing all these issues is more time consuming and ultimately expensive than going in for custom designed software expressly designed to extract web data. Simply specify the URL and parameters and it gets the job done in minutes.