What Are Web Scraping Tools and How They Save Your Time and Money to Collect Bulk Data? Any automated web scraping process that involves extracting large data from websites is known as web scraping. Also referred to as web data extraction or web harvesting, web scraping is done using tools and software that enable users to download data into a structured Text, Excel, or CSV format saving time that would have otherwise been spent manually copy-pasting data. Trying to collect data manually from multiple websites can be time and energy-consuming. This is true for all forms of web data extraction, be it web scraping, web crawling, or HTML scraping. From obtaining data in a usable form to rendering JavaScript, correctly parsing a source to getting the correct page source, there is always so much a growth hacker should do. Thankfully, so many automated web scraping tools have been built to help make web data extraction processes less st...