Glossary

Data terms made simple.

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Web data

Web data refers to information collected from websites, including text, images, videos, and user interactions. It encompasses structured data (like databases) and unstructured data (like social media posts). This data is crucial for analytics, marketing strategies, and improving user experiences by providing insights into online behavior and trends.

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Web Application Firewall

A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a security solution designed to monitor, filter, and protect web applications from malicious traffic and attacks, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. By analyzing HTTP requests and responses, a WAF helps safeguard sensitive data and ensures the integrity and availability of web applications.

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Web crawler

A web crawler, also known as a spider or bot, is an automated program that systematically browses the internet to index content from websites. It collects data for search engines, helping them understand and rank web pages based on relevance and quality, ultimately improving search results for users.

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wget

wget is a free command-line utility that you can use to download files from the internet. It’s a robust tool that’s able to handle unstable network connections and supports various protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.

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Web scraping

Web scraping is the process of collecting data from the web and aggregating it into one place. Although this can be a manual process (i.e. copy and pasting from websites yourself), “web scraping” generally refers to automating that process.

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Web scraper

A web scraper is a tool that automatically extracts data from websites. It finds the information you want from web pages and puts it into a format you can use, such as a spreadsheet.

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