# Ferret
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## What is it?
```ferret``` is a web scraping system. It aims to simplify data extraction from the web for UI testing, machine learning, analytics and more.    
```ferret``` allows users to focus on the data. It abstracts away the technical details and complexity of underlying technologies using its own declarative language. 
It is extremely portable, extensible, and fast.

[Read the introductory blog post about Ferret here!](https://medium.com/@ziflex/say-hello-to-ferret-a-modern-web-scraping-tool-5c9cc85ba183)

### Features

* Declarative language
* Support of both static and dynamic web pages
* Embeddable
* Extensible

Documentation is available [at our website](https://www.montferret.dev/docs/introduction/).

### Different languages

* Ferret for python. [Pyfer](https://github.com/MontFerret/pyfer)