Can you imagine how many scraping instruments are at our service? Though it has a long history, scraping has at last become a multi-lingual and simple approach. Unfortunately, there is a list of non-trivial tasks which can’t be resolved in a snap.
One of these tasks is scraping javascript sites, those that output data using JavaScript. Facing this task, classic scrapers (not all of them though) ignore JS-data and continue their own life-cycle. However, when this little defect becomes a big trouble, developers all over the world take measures. And they did it! Today we consider one of the most awesome tools which scrapes JS-generated data – Splash.