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Web scraping is hard, as much as we want to claim it as simple click and fetch — this is not the whole truth. Well, think back in time, when we haven’t had visual web scrapers like <a href="http://www.octoparse.com/">Octoparse</a>, <a href="http://www.parsehub.com/">Parsehub</a>, or <a href="http://www.mozenda.com/">Mozenda</a>, any persons lacking programming knowledge are held back from tech-intensive stuff like web scraping. Despite the time it takes to learn the software, we might come to appreciate more of what is offered by all these “intelligent” programs, that had made web scraping feasible for everyone.