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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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Why Every Amazon Seller Must Scrape Their Competitor’s Reviews
Monitoring your product’s reviews is incredibly useful to assess customer satisfaction and identifying areas of improvement.
Ashmi Subair
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Scraping Decathlon using Playwright in Python
Decathlon is a rеnownеd sporting goods rеtailеr that offеrs a divеrsе rangе of products, including sports apparеl, shoеs and еquipmеnt....

Thasni M A
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How to Build an Amazon Price Tracker using Python
Everybody loves to get their products on amazon at their lowest prices. I have a bucket list full of electronic gadgets that I am waiting...

Tony Paul
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Predatory Pricing of eCommerce companies in the pulse oximeter category: Data & Insights
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the market for medical equipment for at-home health monitoring has witnessed a boom. One of...

Tony Paul
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Scraping Services for Marketers: How to Use Web Scraping to drive Marketing Decisions
Confusion and uncertainty are the two new constants in our lives now. The consumer is confused on what to buy and the retailers are...

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
May 17, 20183 min read
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11 Basic Questions To Think About Before Introducing Your Business to Web Scraping
In today’s day and age, web scraping has become an online arms race no internet marketer can avoid. Market giants like Amazon and Walmart...

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
May 11, 20183 min read
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How Web Scraping Can be used to Automate Dropshipping
Over the past two decades, the internet has evolved from a geek’s work to a common man’s daily functioning tool for pretty much...

Tony Paul
May 9, 20184 min read
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Data Journalism: How Data Scraping Creates a New Scope for Journalists
As the internet expands and the technology advances, there is more and more every day we can do with the information that is generated...

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Apr 18, 20184 min read
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How Data Scraping can give your Business a Competitive Edge over Others
In today’s world, data is your goldmine! If you can successfully leverage insights generated from data, you’ll witness your business grow...

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Apr 11, 20183 min read
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How Retailers Can Use Web Scraping to Improve Conversions
We all love talking. We chat about the weather, discuss the inflation rates; complaint about the nanny never making it on time and...

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Dec 8, 20173 min read
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Web Scraping in Real Estate: The Ultimate Tool for a Realtor
There was a time when real estate dealings were discrete, paper-based operations done on a one to one basis. With the rise of the...

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Nov 28, 20172 min read
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How Data Scraping in Real Estate Will Transform the Housing Industry?
With the advancement of big data analytics and machine learning algorithms in day to day lives, a modern company today spares no expense...

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Nov 8, 20174 min read
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Website Scraping: Your Business’s Biggest Growth Hack
Website scraping has been the oldest growth hack technique in the digital marketing book. What was once a simple copy paste of...

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Sep 30, 20173 min read
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How to Choose a Web Scraping Service : The Pricing vs Cost Dilemma
“That’s an expensive web scraping service compared to the other options we have.” I hear this conundrum almost every day. Technically,...

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Sep 16, 20173 min read
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5 Reasons Why Retail Winners Do Competitor Price Monitoring
The world of e–commerce essentially revolves around the theory of “right price at the right time”. Online shopping has primarily become...

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Sep 3, 20173 min read
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Why Data Scraping is the Next Frontier in Battle for Investment Returns
There is a reason why investment firms exalt the importance of data scraping. There was a time when a money manager would assess sales...

Tony Paul
Aug 30, 20172 min read
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How Web Analytics is Driving a Booming E-Retail Industry
In the era of online marketing, change is the only constant. As new tactics to successfully navigate the market are devised every day,...

Tony Paul
Jul 17, 20174 min read
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Scrape The Internet To Get Training Data For Your Machine Learning Model
Have you seen the latest season of the Silicon Valley series? In the series, Erlich Blachman is asking Jian Yang to scrape the internet...

Tony Paul
May 26, 20173 min read
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Product Assortment For Retailers In Layman’s Terms
Product assortment is a topic that a lot of retailers don’t pay attention to. Here is a blog post that explains why it is relevant and...
Jezeel MK
May 1, 20174 min read
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How To Automate The Recruiting Of Tech Talent
Recruiting tech talent is a very tough job. Automating a major portion of the recruiting process can save HR teams ton of time and money....

Tony Paul
Feb 3, 20172 min read
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3 ways web scraping can help you make product launch successful
You might have seen the video of iPhone product launch by Steve Jobs. It was one of the most successful launches ever. The iPhone 3G sold...

Tony Paul
Jan 26, 20172 min read
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Free Web Scraping And Free Web Crawling Is A Myth My Friend- Period!
You must have come across free web scraping tools or browser plugins. Have you ever thought how they are managing to give you these free...
Jezeel MK
Jan 25, 20172 min read
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Building an online fashion store – 4 things you must know
Affiliate marketing contributes about 20% traffic of most online fashion brands and retailers. The great thing about affiliate marketing...

Tony Paul
Oct 17, 20162 min read
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Beginner’s guide to Web Scraping with Python lxml
Web Scraping with Python is a popular subject around data science enthusiasts. Here is a piece of content aimed at beginners who want to...

Tony Paul
Sep 7, 20166 min read
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