Web scraping has become a vital tool for many businesses nowadays. It allows individuals and companies to collect useful data from websites, process it, and apply it for different goals. Picking the right tools is essential for the effectiveness of that task. Today, Golang and Python language have become some of the best options for web scraping. In this article, we will explore the pros and cons of using Python and Golang language as such tools, comparing their speed, scalability, and suitability in different scenarios.
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With over 4 billion million users worldwide, social media platforms have become a lucrative data tidbit for market analysts, recruitment executives and business owners around the planet. This fact dramatically increased the popularity of all types of data scraping on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin: bots and automated scrapers crawl the social media for geo-targeted info on businesses, prospect candidates, customers and decision makers in all possible areas. But is it all legal in the first place? And how can you maintain ethical standards while automating your process of gathering publicly available data from social media platforms?
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