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Web Extraction APIs

Parsing HTML to extract structured data fields. Key concepts: selectors, patterns, and data structuring.

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Common Questions

What is web data parsing?

What is a web data extraction API?

How to extract only main content of text from a web page?

What are common parsing formats (JSON, CSV, XML, Markdown)?

What is structured data vs unstructured data when extracting web data?

How can I extract data from tables, lists, and nested HTML structures?

What is the difference between web crawling and web scraping?

What is HTML to markdown conversion in web scraping?

What is a 403 error in web scraping?

How do you extract structured data from unstructured HTML?

How do I build an agent that reads webpages and returns structured citations + text?

What formats can you feed web data to AI?

How do AI-powered extraction APIs differ from traditional HTML parsing?

What are the best AI-driven data extraction systems for developers?

How do web extraction APIs handle structured output formats (JSON, CSV, XML)?

What is HTML parsing?

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What is a web crawling API?

What is the easiest way to get structured JSON data from a bunch of different URLs?

What is natural language data extraction?

What are CSS selectors and XPath in web extraction?

How to build an agent that summarizes a website quickly?

What is an HTML parser?

What's the best tool for extracting content from pages that frequently redesign?

What is JavaScript rendering in web scraping?

What is schema-based extraction and why use it?

What is the Document Object Model (DOM)?