---
title: "Web Scraping as an API Service"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/web-scraping-as-an-api-service-fzeaivo4i
source_url: https://dzone.com/articles/web-scraping-as-an-api-service
type: article
source: "DZone"
published: 2022-07-10T15:35:46.146Z
updated: 2026-03-15T05:24:52.022Z
tags: ["crawling", "general-programming", "python"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 31
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Web Scraping as an API Service

**[DZone](https://daily.dev/sources/dz)** · 9 min read · 31 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Playwright is a Python tool that can be used to scrape web pages. It can also be used as a way to integrate a web scraping tool with an API service. Playwright generates Python code that can then be used in API integrations. The tool is good and has many other uses that go beyond the scope of this text.

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**@itzamna839** · 0 upvotes

> I found this to be well explained,  the step by step process is GR8.

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