Web scraping with excel

Abstract

Web scraping is a process that is particularly important in fields such as Business Intelligence in the modern age. Web scrapping is a technology that allow us to extract structured data from text such as HTML. Web scrapping is extremely useful in situations where doesisn’t provided in readable format such as JSON or XML. The use of web scrapping to gather data allows us to gather prices in near real time from retail store sites and provide further details, web scrapping can also be used to gather intelligence of illicit businesses such as drug marketplaces in the darknet to provide law enforcement and researchers valuable data such as drug prices and varieties that would be unavailable with conventional methods. It has been found that using a web scraping program would yield data that is far more thorough, accurate, and consistent than manual entry Web scraping with Excel is the process of automatically extracting data from websites and importing it into Excel for analysis and reporting purposes. Excel's built-in web scraping tool, Power Query, allows users to connect to a website, select the data they want to extract, and transform the data into a usable format. However, it's important to be aware of the potential legal and ethical issues surrounding web scraping, and to use discretion when extracting data from websites KEYWORDS Scraping, Excel, Data, structure.