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A blog for people & companies looking to make a big business impact with data acquired using web scraping and web crawling. Learn the best practices, business use cases, legality, and how you can do your job better with data.
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Top 10 GDPR Fines in 2018 to 2025: A Data-Driven Analysis
Introduction Yes, it’s over — the era of unchecked data collection, silent tracking, and unaccountable digital practices.  The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ended it for good, redefining how organizations collect, process, and protect the personal data of European Union citizens. A decade ago, user information was traded, tracked, and monetized with little scrutiny; privacy was an afterthought, not a business priority. That changed in 2018 with the enforcement of
Navin Saif
Nov 117 min read
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Web Scraping Without Getting Blocked Using curl-cffi
Learn how to perform web scraping without getting blocked using curl-cffi. Discover how this Python library helps you bypass anti-bot systems, mimic real browsers, and ensure smoother, more reliable data extraction.
tony56024
Oct 177 min read
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How to Scrape Product Data from Amazon US?
Introduction Ever tried shopping for vlogging equipment on Amazon? It's overwhelming. You've got thousands of microphones, cameras, and tripods to choose from, and manually comparing them all would take forever. That's exactly why I built this web scraping system - to automatically collect and organize all that product data so you can actually make informed decisions. This project shows you how to build a complete two-phase scraping system that systematically extracts vloggin
Shahana farvin
Oct 924 min read
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Y Combinator 2025: How AI is Reshaping Startups and Markets
In 2025, over 72% of new startups in Y Combinator are powered by artificial intelligence , signaling a seismic shift in how technology is...
Aarathi J
Apr 96 min read
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Invisible E-commerce Profit Killers & How to Fix Them
If you run an e-commerce business, you already know this - your website changes constantly. Products get added, removed, renamed, moved, repriced. Developers ship updates. Merchandisers tweak content. Apps and integrations act unpredictably. And somewhere in the middle of all this movement… things quietly break. The scary part? Most of these issues never show up in the tools you rely on. Not in Google Search Console. Not in your SEO audits. Not in your automated QA checks. No
Tony Paul
Nov 1810 min read
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Top 10 GDPR Fines in 2018 to 2025: A Data-Driven Analysis
Introduction Yes, it’s over — the era of unchecked data collection, silent tracking, and unaccountable digital practices.  The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ended it for good, redefining how organizations collect, process, and protect the personal data of European Union citizens. A decade ago, user information was traded, tracked, and monetized with little scrutiny; privacy was an afterthought, not a business priority. That changed in 2018 with the enforcement of
Navin Saif
Nov 117 min read
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California vs New York Condo Prices 2025: Homes.com Data Insights
Buying a home—be it a house, condo, or co-op—in California or New York is not just a choice of location, but a high-stakes financial decision. At Datahut, we scraped over 1,400 real estate listings from Homes to analyze how these two iconic states compare specifically in the condo and apartment market. This Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) reveals that from median purchase price and property taxes to the value per square foot and the cost of larger units, California's housi
Anusha P O
Nov 910 min read
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How to Scrape Product Data from AllMachines: A Step-by-Step Guide
Did you ever think about how comparison websites get the prices and details of the same product from so many online stores? There’s a pretty little trick called web scraping that does it. You can think of web scraping as almost sending a tiny robot to various websites to collect similar information and extract titles, prices and descriptions. Over the years, that robot has gotten very intelligent! The advent of new technologies like headless browsers (browsers that run in the
Shahana farvin
Nov 540 min read
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Want to Fix Your Unit Economics? Do What Nestlé Did- Start Saying No to More SKUs
In 2021, Nestlé made a bold move that few companies of its size dare to make. They didn’t launch a new product. They started deleting them. Project TASTY  — Nestlé’s global SKU rationalization program — was launched to simplify the company’s portfolio  and improve unit economics . Here’s what they discovered:  👉 34 % of Nestlé’s SKUs contributed just ~1 % of sales.  👉 Only 11 % of SKUs generated ~80 % of revenue.  The logic was clear but courageous: if one-third of your 100
Tony Paul
Oct 318 min read
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How Data-Driven Storytelling Builds Brand Trust and Purpose in 2025?
Introduction – The Shift from Marketing to Meaning In 2025, the most trusted brands  aren’t just the ones with the best products, they’re the ones with the most transparent stories. And often, those stories begin with data. Modern consumers no longer buy products; they buy into values. Edelman’s 2024 Trust Barometer  revealed that 68% of global consumers make buying decisions based on shared beliefs and trust, not just price or convenience. People expect brands to reflect th
Aarathi J
Oct 296 min read
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