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There is so much data on the internet alone that one person could never process all of it. Web scraping can be used in a variety of different ways to collect information throughout the internet. A web scraping program will search a site for targeted data. It typically shows it to you in HTML format. Then, it takes said scraped data and stores it in a database so that you can use it. There are no reason that a company or person needs to sit in front of a computer all day.