What is raw data?
Raw data is the HTML source code of a webpage.
This includes:
HTML tags
Embedded scripts
Page layout elements
This is exactly what the Scraping API returns.
What is parsed data?
Parsed data is structured information extracted from HTML, such as:
Product name
Price
SKU
User lists
Parsing converts raw HTML into usable formats like:
JSON
CSV
Database records
Important limitation:
There is no universal parser.
Each website:
Has a unique structure
Requires a custom parsing script