Glossary

Web Scraping Glossary

Web scraping has its own vocabulary — APIs, crawlers, proxies, CAPTCHAs, and more. This glossary breaks down the key terms in plain language, with real examples and links to related concepts.

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Anti-Scraping Bot

Automated defenses like CAPTCHAs and IP blocking that websites deploy to identify and stop scrapers before they can collect data. → [Read more]

API (Application Programming Interface)

A set of rules that lets two software systems exchange data directly, without needing to read or interpret a webpage. → [Read more]

API Scraping

Extracting data by calling a website's internal API directly, instead of reading it off the rendered webpage. → [Read more]

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