Web Scraping is automating pulling information from websites. Get the latest job links on indeed, or see if there has been a posting on your favorite blog, or see if a new version of software has been updated on the download site. There are lots of reasons for webscraping. To get started in Python, I found the below tutorials that I find very helpful:
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-web-scrape-with-python-in-4-minutes-bc49186a8460