Developer tools

Developer tools (or DevTools) are found embedded within most browsers on the market today. Developers and end users alike can identify and locate resources and search for web content that is used during client-server communication, or while engaged in an HTTP request and response.

DevTools allow a user to examine, create, edit, and debug HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They also allow us to handle performance problems. They facilitate the extraction of data that is dynamically or securely presented by the browser.

DevTools will be used for most data extraction cases, and for cases similar to Case 2 from the page source section previously mentioned. For more information on developer tools, please explore these links:

  • Chrome DevTools ...

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