Learn Web Scraping
New to web scraping? Follow this structured learning path from the basics to advanced topics. Each lesson provides standalone educational content with code examples and links to related resources.
For a full interactive course, check out the Scrapfly Web Scraping Academy.
Learning Path
Fundamentals
| # | Lesson | What You Will Learn |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is Web Scraping? | The basics of web scraping and why it is used |
| 2 | Scraping vs Crawling | The difference between scraping data and crawling websites |
| 3 | Legal Considerations | Is web scraping legal? Rules by country |
Web Basics
| # | Lesson | What You Will Learn |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | HTTP Protocol | How HTTP requests and responses work |
| 5 | HTML Structure | How web pages are built with HTML |
| 6 | JavaScript on the Web | How JavaScript loads dynamic content |
| 7 | JSON Data | How APIs return structured data |
Core Scraping Skills
| # | Lesson | What You Will Learn |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Static Page Scraping | Making HTTP requests and getting page content |
| 9 | HTML Parsing | Extracting data with CSS selectors and XPath |
| 10 | Hidden Web Data | Finding data in script tags, meta tags, and JSON-LD |
| 11 | Dynamic Page Scraping | Scraping JavaScript-rendered pages |
| 12 | Headless Browsers | Using Playwright, Puppeteer, and Selenium |
Advanced Topics
| # | Lesson | What You Will Learn |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | How Websites Block Scrapers | Detection methods and bypass strategies |
| 14 | Anti-Bot Protections | Guide to Cloudflare, DataDome, Akamai, and other systems |
| 15 | Scaling Web Scrapers | Concurrency, proxies, and production scraping |
| 16 | Browser Libraries | Anti-detect browsers, AI agents, TLS fingerprint tools |
| 17 | Frameworks | Scrapy, Crawlee, Colly, and other frameworks |
Tools by Language
| Task | Python | JavaScript | Go |
|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP client | httpx, curl-cffi | axios, got | req |
| HTML parser | parsel, beautifulsoup | cheerio | goquery |
| Browser | Playwright | Puppeteer | rod |
| Framework | Scrapy | Crawlee | Colly |
| Anti-detect | nodriver | puppeteer-extra | - |
Ready-to-Use Scrapers
Want working code right away? See the Web Scrapers section for 47 open source scrapers covering Amazon, LinkedIn, Zillow, and more.