A review of programming languages for web scraping from software repository sites

Abstract

-The choice of tool and language for exercising any particular area of work is the foremost task for any researcher and this also holds true for data extraction activity. This paper highlights the pros and cons of four programming languages C, Java, PHP and Python with respect to the libraries and other programming features these languages offer for scraping websites and extraction of data from software repositories. This paper also discusses in brief the related libraries and the methods of using them. The paper can be considered to be a review work of the above mentioned four languages and may help the reader to explore their usefulness and utility with respect to the related task.