CAF-3 · Chapter 4 · Question 6 of 15
A travel agency uses automated software bots to extract real-time pricing information from the websites of competing airlines. This data collection method is known as:
Test yourself: pick an answer
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: C) Web Scraping
Explanation
Web scraping is a technique primarily used to extract large amounts of data, such as pricing or product details, directly from websites
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