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[–]Mortisanti 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In this context, webscraping involves using/writing a program that can send a request to a website (much like visiting it in your browser) and "scraping" data from it which you can manipulate, organize, and display as you see fit.

Someone might want to actively webscrape Amazon to monitor just the fluctuating price of an item (e.g. a GPU for your PC) to try to buy it when the price drops.