Web scraping

Quality:

Web scraping - data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Article "Web scraping" in English Wikipedia has 44.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 32 references and 19 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:
English Wikipedia:
The 921st most popular in English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 3825th most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article "Web scraping", its content was written by 401 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 711 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 180 times in English Wikipedia and cited 501 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #5083 in August 2013
  • Global: #26086 in August 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #1 in February 2016
  • Global: #1 in February 2016

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Web scraping
44.3333
2Russian (ru)
Веб-скрейпинг
37.0332
3Persian (fa)
وب اسکرپینگ
34.9749
4German (de)
Screen Scraping
33.5393
5Turkish (tr)
Web kazıma
31.8793
6French (fr)
Web scraping
28.2169
7Ukrainian (uk)
Web scraping
23.7632
8Italian (it)
Web scraping
20.5951
9Portuguese (pt)
Web scraping
16.7802
10Catalan (ca)
Web scraping
15.0759
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Web scraping" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Web scraping
43 215 084
2Japanese (ja)
ウェブスクレイピング
458 164
3Spanish (es)
Web scraping
438 902
4French (fr)
Web scraping
360 184
5German (de)
Screen Scraping
309 945
6Italian (it)
Web scraping
141 436
7Russian (ru)
Веб-скрейпинг
96 639
8Dutch (nl)
Scrapen
39 299
9Portuguese (pt)
Web scraping
36 136
10Chinese (zh)
网页抓取
35 920
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Web scraping" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Web scraping
15 811
2Spanish (es)
Web scraping
2 466
3French (fr)
Web scraping
2 092
4Japanese (ja)
ウェブスクレイピング
1 384
5Russian (ru)
Веб-скрейпинг
1 340
6Italian (it)
Web scraping
1 135
7German (de)
Screen Scraping
1 034
8Portuguese (pt)
Web scraping
562
9Chinese (zh)
网页抓取
322
10Ukrainian (uk)
Web scraping
220
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Web scraping" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Web scraping
401
2German (de)
Screen Scraping
68
3French (fr)
Web scraping
61
4Italian (it)
Web scraping
26
5Spanish (es)
Web scraping
22
6Japanese (ja)
ウェブスクレイピング
18
7Turkish (tr)
Web kazıma
18
8Ukrainian (uk)
Web scraping
17
9Russian (ru)
Веб-скрейпинг
14
10Arabic (ar)
تجريف ويب
13
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Web scraping" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
Web scraping
3
2German (de)
Screen Scraping
1
3Italian (it)
Web scraping
1
4Dutch (nl)
Scrapen
1
5Turkish (tr)
Web kazıma
1
6Arabic (ar)
تجريف ويب
0
7Catalan (ca)
Web scraping
0
8Czech (cs)
Web scraping
0
9English (en)
Web scraping
0
10Spanish (es)
Web scraping
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Web scraping" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Web scraping
180
2French (fr)
Web scraping
95
3Chinese (zh)
网页抓取
32
4Japanese (ja)
ウェブスクレイピング
29
5German (de)
Screen Scraping
28
6Arabic (ar)
تجريف ويب
23
7Spanish (es)
Web scraping
20
8Korean (ko)
웹 스크래핑
19
9Ukrainian (uk)
Web scraping
15
10Dutch (nl)
Scrapen
13
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in July 2024:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تجريف ويب
caCatalan
Web scraping
csCzech
Web scraping
deGerman
Screen Scraping
enEnglish
Web scraping
esSpanish
Web scraping
euBasque
Web scraping
faPersian
وب اسکرپینگ
frFrench
Web scraping
idIndonesian
Menggali web
itItalian
Web scraping
jaJapanese
ウェブスクレイピング
koKorean
웹 스크래핑
nlDutch
Scrapen
ptPortuguese
Web scraping
ruRussian
Веб-скрейпинг
trTurkish
Web kazıma
ukUkrainian
Web scraping
zhChinese
网页抓取

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#1
02.2016
Global:
#1
02.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#5083
08.2013
Global:
#26086
08.2013

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Web scraping from Wikipedia articles about Web crawler, Beautiful Soup, Data scraping, Indian Certificate of Secondary Education and Python. Whereas reading the article about Web scraping people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Data scraping, Web crawler, Data mining, Parsing and Robots.txt.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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