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Using XPath in Selenium for scraping helps to parse dynamic elements and to find element at any level of DOM structure.

Scrapy is the most popular web scraping framework in Python. Unlike BeautifulSoup or Selenium, Scrapy is not a library. The big advantage is that the tool is completely free.

The advantage of C# programming language in web scraping is that it allows to integrate the browser directly into forms using the C# WebBrowser. The scraped data can be saved to any output file, or displayed on the screen.

To reduce the number of bots using the site, developers use IP address recognition, HTTP request headers checking, CAPTCHA, and other methods to detect bot traffic. However, these are still possible to bypass. To do this, you need to follow some rules during scraping.

There are ten programming languages which are used for web scraping: Python, Ruby, Node.JS, GoLang, Perl, PHP, C#, C&C++, Java and Rust. The choice of a suitable language depends on its capabilities, convenience and the tools it provides.

Unlike other libraries, Selenium uses a Google Chrome WebDriver (whether in active or headless)mode for scraping, which makes the process more like manual data collection.