Usually you'd have to be the owner or operator of a website to scrap it. I guess hacking into the server and deleting all data would also work.
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You are probably talking about scraping a website. There are usually tools for this already that make that easy. Last time I had to do something like that I used scrapy.
Scrappy created exactly for this use case. I used to work in project for product info scraping when LLMs didn’t exist. So you don’t really have to use LLM. It’s usually semi-structured data. Your biggest pain will likely be SPAs with JS which need to run in order to load content. If you need to render SPAs check Selenium web driver or similar
The term is to "scrape", "scraping a website". See that singular p?
Another good example to illustrate is the word "illustrate". You would say "illustrating", not "illustratting", as the magic e is replaced with "ing". A closer example to "scrape" would be the word "gape", you would say "a gaping hole", not a "gapping"
I hope this helps! English is a weird language. To "scrape" means to collect, while to "scrap" means to discard.
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