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Web scraping and extraction
DOM (Document Object Model)
Also called: DOM
The tree of elements a browser builds from HTML, which scripts modify and selectors query.
In practice
On JavaScript-heavy sites the data exists only in the rendered DOM, not in the HTML the server first sent.
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