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Scraping is an unstable and unreliable solution for pulling data from data sources, compared to APIs. From a technical marketer perspective, scraping and automation libraries are extremely important to learn. Here’s an introduction to two of the most widely used web scraping libraries in Node JS. Both tools allow you to use node for automation and scraping in ways that marketers usually attribute to Python. These tools are another example of how learning Javascript might be a pain in the ass, but can eventually give you more profound and holistic knowledge of web development.