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The most recent of which HiQ vs LinkedIn, found that scraping data from a website doesn't violate anti-hacking laws as long as the data is public and the scraper hasn't explicitly agreed to the website's terms and conditions in advance.
The goal of both web scraping and APIs is to access web data. Web scraping allows you to extract data from any website through the use of web scraping software. On the other hand, APIs give you direct access to the data you'd want.
Nowadays, most websites that handle massive amounts of data have a dedicated API, such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and even Wikipedia. But while a web scraper is a tool that allows you to browse and scrape the most remote corners of a website for data, APIs are structured in their extraction of data.
Getting Started. Using ScraperAPI is easy. Just send the URL you would like to scrape to the API along with your API key and the API will return the HTML response from the URL you want to scrape.
If you navigate to the following url and select Search By Country.
Then insert AE for Holder Country.
As the following:
After you press search. then you will notice an XHR call to the following API which is a POST request.
Here's it:
as you can see there's value for qz which i can't get how it's implemented in order to call the API and do pagination too.
May someone has a clue on how to call that API and do the pagination ?
The best which i reached is the JS functions location which handle the encoding of parameters here
I've already tried selenium with proxy rotation service but i got detected after retrieving some pages.
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