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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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5 Major Challenges That Make Amazon Data Scraping Painful
Amazon has been on the cutting edge of collecting, storing, and analyzing a large amount of data. Be it customer data, product information, data about retailers, or even information on the general market trends. Since Amazon is one of the largest e-commerce websites, a lot of analysts and firms depend on the data extracted from here to derive actionable insights. The growing e-commerce industry demands sophisticated analytical techniques to predict market trends, study custom
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Oct 27, 20207 min read
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How to Hit a Home Run as an Amazon Seller
Amazon is a global platform that harbors buyers and sellers, both. Nowadays, its online presence defines a business . Hence, all merchants are joining this race to become an online retailer . As an Amazon seller, you can easily change your e-commerce game. HOW BEING AN SELLER ON AMAZON WORKS? Your journey as an Amazon seller starts the moment you register on the sign-up link . But it takes a few more steps to be able to begin selling on Amazon . The first of these is
Sakshi Ragini
Jan 29, 20207 min read
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How Scraping Amazon Data can help you price your products right
Amazon is one of the largest e-commerce platforms across the globe. It has one of the largest customer bases and one of the most versatile and adaptive product portfolios . It definitely gets the advantage of a large amount of data and better operational processes in place due to its standing as one of the largest retailers. Having said that, even you can use Amazon’s data as an advantage to yourself to design a better product and price portfolio. A simple tool for the same
Srishti Saha
Dec 6, 20194 min read
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Scraping Amazon Data: How can Web Scraping benefit you as an Amazon Dealer?
Owing to the rise of e-commerce stores and an increasingly tech-savvy world, a plethora of dealers now have a chance to drastically improve their online presence and conduct a profitable business. While Amazon and Walmart have primarily dominated in this avenue, among others, online dealers largely rely on these platforms to make burgeoning revenues through attractive online deals and sales. E-commerce has now become more about intelligent and targeted marketing. This hug
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Dec 4, 20183 min read
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Why Predictive Shopping Will Dominate Retail in 2018
A few years back, a huge debate had many the fate of many retail stores hanging by a thread. Many chains were wondering if retails store were a boon or just a liability. And where we are standing currently, the answer is pretty clear. But a more pertinent question now haunts us. ‘What next?’ The answer: Predictive Shopping. The rapid transformation that retail has gone through positions it at a very prime spot. With technologies like AI, machine learning and big data readily
Anmol Chawla
Aug 1, 20184 min read
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How Large Retailers are Engaging customers using data
If Amazon and Walmart were to go head to head, whose side would you be on? Being the two giants of the retail industry, these two clash swords on a daily basis. And that’s what recently happened. In the present day, the industry is buzzing with the latest gossip about Walmart facing an embarrassing situation against Amazon. While Walmart was busy spying on Amazon with its shopping bots, which scrapped Amazon’s website several million times a day for pricing data, Amazon was
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Jun 22, 20185 min read
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How Amazon is at the Apex of the E-commerce Battle
Recently Jeff Bezos, founder of e-commerce giant Amazon , overtook Bill Gates to become the richest man on Earth. With Amazon’s immense success in the e-commerce sector, this comes as no surprise. There are various aspects to a business that makes it a success. Keeping up with the latest trends, product availability, customer experience, consumer satisfaction, efficient delivery systems, right pricing, kick-ass discounts are just a few things that matter. There are large o
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Nov 5, 20173 min read
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How Data is Driving Disruptive Innovation in Online Retail
With the influx of predictive analysis and artificial intelligence in retail , data driven insights have enabled corporations to take far-sighted decisions, thus giving them a strong footing amongst the changing trends. There is not a single industry that has not been affected by this huge change in research trend. E-commerce, transportation, and travel were completely different industries a few years ago and the pace at which they have grown and changed is simply astounding
Tony Paul
Aug 17, 20173 min read
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Most Of The Genuine Apple Products Sold Online Are Counterfeits – Says Apple
Nearly 90% of so called genuine Apple products sold online are fake. How do you identify counterfeits online using data and save the reputation of your brand? Apple says it has been buying Apple chargers and cables labeled as genuine on Amazon.com and has found most of them to be counterfeit. Apple filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey company on Monday over what Apple says are counterfeit chargers and cables for its products that were sold on Amazon. Some sources on the we
Tony Paul
Oct 27, 20162 min read
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Follow Amazon to grow your online retail business
Amazon with a $358 billion market cap is one of the most successful online retailers. Online retailing business has huge potential, however it is also very competitive. A lot of companies came and vanished into thin air. Giants like Amazon and startups from the garage are fighting fiercely for the biggest piece of the market. A strategy powered by real and factual information about your competitors is the difference between your success and failure. Amazon is an example  wi
Tony Paul
Aug 23, 20162 min read
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