Structured Data

Structured data is information organized in a predefined format that machines can easily read and process.

In web scraping, structured data is the output — a table, JSON object, or spreadsheet where each row represents a record and each column represents a field. The goal of scraping is to transform unstructured web HTML into structured, queryable data.

Related Terms

Web Scraping

Web scraping is the automated extraction of structured data from websites.

JSONL (JSON Lines)

JSONL (JSON Lines) is a text format where each line is a valid, self-contained JSON object.

XPath

XPath is a query language for selecting nodes from an XML or HTML document tree.