Modern Web Scraping Guide In a perfect world, every website provides free access to data with an easy-to-use API… but the world is far from perfect. However, it is possible to use web scraping techniques to manually extract data from websites by brute force. The following lesson examines two different types of web scrapers and implements them with NodeJS and Firebase Cloud Functions. Initial Setup
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