Web scraping is a technique that lets you inspect, parse, and extract data from websites that would have otherwise been difficult to access due to the lack of a dedicated API. Web crawling involves systematically browsing the internet, starting with a “seed” URL, and recursively visiting the links the crawler finds on each visited page.

Colly is a Go package for writing both web scrapers and crawlers. It is based on Go’s net/HTTP (for network communication) and goquery (which lets you use a “jQuery-like” syntax to target HTML elements).

In this article, we will scrape the details of celebrities whose birthdays are on a certain date. We will be leveraging Colly’s powers to get this data from the IMDB website.

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