Is web scraping difficult to learn?

NO. It is not more difficult to scrape data from the web now than it was in the past .29 Eyl 2019

It takes one week to learn the basics of web development technologies. One week to learn web scraping and python libraries like NumPy, pandas, matplotlib for data handling and analysis.

That’s because, as far as we can tell, scraping is hard, no matter what platform you’re using . For example, let’s pretend you’re scraping a fairly ordinary web page that has some data as a table. Barely a sentence in and we already need to know about HTML and URLs.