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WEB SCRAPING WITH YOUR WEB BROWSER: WHY NOT?

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Web scraping can be effectively done directly within a web browser, despite the widespread reliance on Python and other external tools. While limitations like CORS restrictions exist, they can be overcome with the use of proxy servers. This article shows a simple web scraper built entirely within a web browser using just a few lines of JavaScript code.