--- title: "Guides articles (page 2) | Scrape.ly" description: "How web scraping works: crawling, APIs, browsers, exports and the legal side, explained with working code. Page 2." url: https://scrape.ly/blog/category/guides/page/2 markdown: https://scrape.ly/blog/category/guides/page/2.md --- Blog category # Guides (page 2) How web scraping works: crawling, APIs, browsers, exports and the legal side, explained with working code. [RSS feed](https://scrape.ly/blog/rss.xml) - [![Pixel-art robot with an orange >\_ on its terminal head stands thinking between a house with lit windows on the left and a server rack of the same height on the right, a cable with data packets running to it from each](https://scrape.ly/media/residential-vs-datacenter-proxies.png?w=750)](https://scrape.ly/blog/residential-vs-datacenter-proxies.md) ### [Residential vs Datacenter Proxies for Web Scraping: Cost, Speed and When to Use Each](https://scrape.ly/blog/residential-vs-datacenter-proxies.md) [Residential vs datacenter proxies: residential IPs come from home internet connections and look like ordinary visitors; datacenter IPs come from servers and are faster and cheaper. How they compare, when to use which, real per-GB prices and two real runs.](https://scrape.ly/blog/residential-vs-datacenter-proxies.md) - [![Pixel-art robot with an orange >\_ on its terminal head pulls a data card out of a browser window showing the green Selenium logo, which is cabled to a monitor showing the blue and yellow Python logo](https://scrape.ly/media/selenium-web-scraping.png?w=750)](https://scrape.ly/blog/selenium-web-scraping.md) ### [Selenium Web Scraping in Python: Step-by-Step Guide](https://scrape.ly/blog/selenium-web-scraping.md) [Selenium web scraping in Python, step by step: install, headless Chrome, locators, explicit waits, clicking through pages, infinite scroll, screenshots and CSV/JSON export, tested with Selenium 4.51 on 23 October 2026. Plus when Playwright fits better and how to run it at scale.](https://scrape.ly/blog/selenium-web-scraping.md) - [![Pixel-art robot with an orange >\_ on its terminal head lifts a lit strip of text off the screen of an old grey terminal monitor, where one highlighted line is being read, and drops it into a crate](https://scrape.ly/media/screen-scraping.png?w=750)](https://scrape.ly/blog/screen-scraping.md) ### [What Is Screen Scraping (and How It Differs From Web Scraping)](https://scrape.ly/blog/screen-scraping.md) [Screen scraping reads data from what a program displays: terminal screens, desktop windows, rendered pages or images. See its three kinds, how RPA and banks use it, where regulators drew lines, and why web scraping from structured data beats reading pixels.](https://scrape.ly/blog/screen-scraping.md) - [![Pixel-art robot with an orange >\_ on its terminal head carries a row of data from a browser page on the left to a spreadsheet marked with the green Microsoft Excel logo on the right](https://scrape.ly/media/scrape-data-from-website-to-excel.png?w=750)](https://scrape.ly/blog/scrape-data-from-website-to-excel.md) ### [How to Scrape Data From a Website Into Excel (3 Ways)](https://scrape.ly/blog/scrape-data-from-website-to-excel.md) [Three ways to get website data into Excel: copy and paste, Excel's built-in From Web (Power Query), or a ready-made scraper that exports XLSX and refreshes straight into your workbook. Steps, limits and working Power Query code.](https://scrape.ly/blog/scrape-data-from-website-to-excel.md) - [![Pixel-art robot with an orange >\_ on its terminal head carries a row of data from a web page on the left to a spreadsheet marked with the green Google Sheets logo on the right](https://scrape.ly/media/scrape-website-to-google-sheets.png?w=750)](https://scrape.ly/blog/scrape-website-to-google-sheets.md) ### [IMPORTXML + Google Sheets: How to Scrape a Website Into a Spreadsheet (and Beyond)](https://scrape.ly/blog/scrape-website-to-google-sheets.md) [How to scrape a website into Google Sheets: IMPORTXML, IMPORTHTML, IMPORTDATA and IMPORTFEED with exact syntax and tested XPath on books.toscrape.com, Google's refresh rules, an Apps Script fetcher, and scheduled scrapes that write straight into your sheet.](https://scrape.ly/blog/scrape-website-to-google-sheets.md) ## The internet is full of data. Start owning yours. Scrape.ly gives you the infrastructure, the tooling, and the team to extract, process, and operationalize web data at any scale. Setup takes minutes. The advantage lasts forever. [Get Started Free](https://my.scrape.ly/register) [Chat with Support](mailto:support@scrape.ly?subject=Question%20about%20Scrape.ly\&body=Hi%2C%20I%20have%20a%20question%20about%20Scrape.ly.) No credit card. No setup calls.