{"id":9379,"date":"2024-02-26T17:07:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T01:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-cometml.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9379"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:03:07","slug":"top-5-web-scraping-methods-including-using-llms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/blog\/top-5-web-scraping-methods-including-using-llms\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Web Scraping Methods: Including Using LLMs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Web scraping automates the extraction of data from websites using programming or specialized tools. Required for tasks such as market research, data analysis, content aggregation, and competitive intelligence. This efficient method saves time, improves decision making, and allows businesses to study trends and patterns, making it a powerful tool for extracting valuable information from the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since I received a lot of positive comments on my last article, I would like to delve into this topic that is of interest to many people. Besides BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, and Selenium<\/em><\/strong>, have you considered web scraping using LLM<\/strong>? It\u2019s a technique worthy of your curiosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let\u2019s start!!!<\/h4>\n

If you know Python but not HTML, you should first understand the basics of HTML.<\/p>\n

I. Understanding Basic HTML for Web Scraping<\/h2>\n

HTML is the basic component of web pages. A set of tags is used to structure content on the Internet. Tags are like containers that wrap various elements, defining their structure and appearance on a web page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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1. Structure of HTML<\/strong><\/h4>\n

An HTML document consists of 2 main parts: header and body.<\/p>\n