To get the most out of this book

In order to get the most from this book, you should familiarize yourself with your Terminal or Command Prompt, ensure you have a good internet connection, and read each chapter, even if you think you already know it. The readers of this book should keep an open mind as to how they think a web scraper should act, and they should learn the current best practices and proper etiquette. This book also focuses on the Go programming language, covering the installation, basic commands, the standard library, and package management, so some familiarity with Go will be helpful as this book covers the language in a broad sense and only goes into the depth that is needed for web scraping. To be able to run most of the code in this book, the reader should be familiar with their Terminal or Command Prompt in order to run the examples, among other tasks.