Scraping or UI Automation? From monkey level to pro!

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The talk compares approaches for web crawling, scraping and UI automation by demonstrating tools and code examples. It covers webscraper.io, Beautiful Soup and Scrapy for scraping, then Selenium and SikuliX for browser and UI automation, showing small code snippets for each.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:51What is meant by UI Automation?
3. 1:59Off-the-shelf tools
4. 4:47How scraping works
5. 8:03How Selenium works
6. 11:47Main libraries
7. 15:18Disadvantages of scraping
8. 21:51Conclusions

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