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Web scraping is the process of automatically mining data or collecting information from the World Wide Web. It is a field with active developments sharing a common goal with the semantic web vision, an ambitious initiative that still requires breakthroughs in text processing, semantic understanding, artificial intelligence and human-computer interactions.
Selenium was originally developed by Jason Huggins in 2004 as an internal tool at ThoughtWorks. [5] Huggins was later joined by other programmers and testers at ThoughtWorks, before Paul Hammant joined the team and steered the development of the second mode of operation that would later become "Selenium Remote Control" (RC).
Beautiful Soup was started in 2004 by Leonard Richardson. [citation needed] It takes its name from the poem Beautiful Soup from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [5] and is a reference to the term "tag soup" meaning poorly-structured HTML code. [6]
A screen fragment and a screen-scraping interface (blue box with red arrow) to customize data capture process. Although the use of physical "dumb terminal" IBM 3270s is slowly diminishing, as more and more mainframe applications acquire Web interfaces, some Web applications merely continue to use the technique of screen scraping to capture old screens and transfer the data to modern front-ends.
The latest generation of "visual scrapers" remove the majority of the programming skill needed to be able to program and start a crawl to scrape web data. The visual scraping/crawling method relies on the user "teaching" a piece of crawler technology, which then follows patterns in semi-structured data sources.
In this example, Playwright is used to open a Chromium browser, navigate to https://example.com, take a screenshot and save it as example.png. @playwright/test further extends these capabilities by providing a test runner that allows developers to write and organize their tests in a more structured and scalable manner.
WOUnit (JUnit), TestNG, Selenium in Project WONDER Yes Yes Yes Google Web Toolkit: Java, JavaScript Yes Yes JPA with RequestFactory JUnit (too early), jsUnit (too difficult), Selenium (best) via Java Yes Bean Validation ZK: Java, ZUML jQuery: Yes Push-pull Yes any J2EE ORM framework JUnit, ZATS HibernateUtil, SpringUtil Spring Security
Web testing tools Web browser based (model) Scriptable Scripting language Recorder Multiple domain Frames BugBug.io: Yes (Chromium-based) Yes JavaScript: Yes Yes Yes eggPlant Functional: Yes (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome) Yes SenseTalk: Yes iMacros: Yes (Firefox, Chrome, IE) Yes iMacro Script: Yes Yes Yes Katalon Studio: Yes