Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Identifying API Calls

The video tutorial explains how to scrape dynamic websites using Scrapy and Playwright, highlighting the challenges of loading JavaScript and other resources. It introduces a method to bypass this by identifying API calls that websites use to fetch data. The tutorial demonstrates using Chrome Dev Tools to track these API requests and extract data directly, avoiding the need to load the entire website.

What are the advantages of directly accessing an API instead of scraping a website?

Explain how to extract data from an API response after identifying the API call.