Some datasets can also be directly imported into Google sheets.

Google Sheets: Scraping data from the internet - Google News Initiative

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If you don’t want to code, there are some libraries and browser extensions that can do some simple scraping.

Scrape data from any website with 1 Click | Data Miner

Web Scraper - The #1 web scraping extension

Web Scraping, Data Extraction and Automation · Apify

Web-scraping can be done using other languages like Python as well.

Journalist's Toolbox: Scraping | Cleaning Data

teaching-guide-python-scraping/Web scraping with Python.ipynb at master · ireapps/teaching-guide-python-scraping

Web Scraping with R

Some datasets might need you to create local databases to consolidate data as it updates. There are some libraries to do that using JSON adapters.

GitHub - typicode/lowdb: Simple to use local JSON database. Powered by plain JavaScript (supports Node, Electron and the browser)

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