Getting Started with Web Scraping in Elixir
Web scraping has become an essential technique for businesses, researchers, and developers who want to collect structured data from websites. While Python, JavaScript, and PHP are the most common languages for scraping, Elixir—a functional, concurrent, and fault-tolerant language—offers unique advantages that make it a great choice for web scraping at scale. In this blog, we’ll walk you through how to start web scraping with Elixir, its benefits, tools, libraries, step-by-step scraping examples, and how it compares with other languages. By the end, you’ll have the knowledge to confidently begin scraping with Elixir and integrate it into your data extraction workflows.