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Analytics Practice : Web Scraping - Monitoring

Web scraping can be a useful tool for monitoring purposes. That is, it can be used to monitor prices or reviews of your competitors or retailers that carry your products. It can be used to check for any fluctuations of prices of these products.

For the basic monitoring, we can make text or excel files from the scraped information. The following are basic python codes for writing to text or excel files. write to text and write to excel

The following video would be helpful to learn basic writing to text or excel files.