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+# Web Scraping Manuals
+
+## Table of Contents
+
+- [About the List](#about-the-list)
+  - [Base Things](#base-things)
+  - [Information Availability](#information-availability)
+  - [Information Granularity](#information-granularity)
+  - [How to Contribute](#how-to-contribute)
+- [Web Scraping Articles and Topics](#web-scraping-articles-and-topics)
+  - [HTML](#html)
+  - [HTTP](#http)
+  - [DNS](#dns)
+  - [TCP](#tcp)
+  - [TLS](#tls)
+  - [WebSocket](#websocket)
+  - [Concurrency](#concurrency)
+  - [Text Encoding](#text-encoding)
+  - [URL](#url)
+  - [XMLHttpRequest](#xmlhttprequest)
+  - [Security](#security)
+  - [IP Address](#ip-address)
+  - [Data Structures](#data-structures)
+
+## About the List
+
+This is a list of articles and books teaching web scraping.
+
+### Base Things
+
+To know base things is more important than to know particular tools or implementations.
+
+It is important to know what is HTTP, TCP, TLS, DNS, HTML, XML, XPath, CSS, DOM, proxying network requests.
+
+It is LESS important to know how to build crawler with SuperScrapingFramework or what function of PowerfulHTMLParsingLibrary allows
+you to extract text from selected element of HTML DOM tree. These things are very specific. You do not have to know how to operate
+with every scraping framework or HTML parsing package in the world. If you know base things it is just a matter of short time
+to get knowledge about how to operate this base things with a particular programming package.
+
+### Information Availability
+
+The list must provide information which is accessable instantly. The list does not accept books whose content are not available online.
+
+### Information Granularity
+
+If a book contains a number of topics, it makes sense to refer to particular topic of the book in a particular section of
+Learning Web Scraping list.
+
+### How to Contribute
+
+You may submit a new issue with an article or book you want to add. I will read the article or take a look at animals on
+a cover picture of the book and will decide is it worth to be included in the list.
+
+## Web Scraping Articles and Topics
+
+### HTML
+
+- [WHATWG / HTML](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/)
+
+### HTTP
+
+- [High Performance Browser Networking / HTTP/1.X](https://hpbn.co/http1x/)
+- [High Performance Browser Networking / HTTP/2](https://hpbn.co/http2/)
+- [HTTP Working Group HTTP Specs](https://httpwg.org/specs/)
+
+### DNS
+
+Nothing yet here.
+
+### TCP
+
+- [High Performance Browser Networking / Building Blocks of TCP](https://hpbn.co/building-blocks-of-tcp/)
+
+### TLS
+
+- [High Performance Browser Networking / Transport Layer Security (TLS)](https://hpbn.co/transport-layer-security-tls/)
+
+### WebSocket
+
+- [High Performance Browser Networking / WebSocket](https://hpbn.co/websocket/)
+- [WHATWG / Websocket](https://websockets.spec.whatwg.org/)
+
+### Concurrency
+
+- [The Little Book of Semaphores](https://greenteapress.com/wp/semaphores/)
+
+### Text Encoding
+
+- [WHATWG / Encoding](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/)
+
+### URL
+
+- [WHATWG / URL](https://url.spec.whatwg.org/)
+
+### XMLHttpRequest
+
+- [WHATWG / XMLHttpRequest](https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/)
+- [High Performance Browser Networking / XMLHttpRequest](https://hpbn.co/xmlhttprequest/)
+
+### Security
+
+- [OWASP Web Security Testing Guide](https://owasp.org/www-project-web-security-testing-guide/latest/)
+
+### IP Address
+
+- [Understanding IP Addressing](http://pages.di.unipi.it/ricci/501302.pdf)
+
+### Data Structures
+
+- [Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining](https://dirtysalt.github.io/html/probabilistic-data-structures-for-web-analytics-and-data-mining.html)