How to Scrape a Static Website

Robert Chen
3 min readJun 23, 2019

A really quick tutorial

Prerequisites: Knowledge of React.js will be required for this tutorial.

Let’s say you want to pull data from the frontend of a website because there’s no API available. You inspect the page and see that the data is available in the HTML, so how do you gather that information to be used in your app? It’s rather simple, we’re going to install two libraries and…

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