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Dev tools · April 28, 2019

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Web Scraping Language (WSL)

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Web Scraping Language (WSL) launched on April 28, 2019 with 11 votes, #973 of 3,128 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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Web Scraping Language is a programming tool for extracting data from websites. It's designed for developers and data analysts who need to automate web data collection. WSL provides a specialized syntax focused specifically on scraping tasks, making it easier to write extraction scripts compared to general-purpose programming languages. The tool handles the technical complexities of parsing web content and retrieving structured information from online sources.

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