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How Web Scraping Is Used To Extract Healthcare Data?

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  Health information comes in several types and dimensions. A web scraping tool is used for obtaining data from difficult-to-reach locations. Scraping the Bottom of the Data Web scraping is an important technique for getting data in a wide range. This is the process of automatically extracting specific information through a website. We create a program, or the "bot," that crawls the backends of the website and extracts data in a usable format. The dataset obtained has been used in several sectors. For example, a bot can be developed that retrieves stock prices of a specific date, monitoring temperature daily, or the commuters found on London Underground. Data scraping allows to add some more characteristics to the data and build better datasets quickly. The medicine industry found potential in data scraping services as it has huge data that needs to be worked on. For example, collecting data on genetic variants from the internet or datasets with side effects of medication. Th...