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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
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
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
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
It’s the Season to Get Holiday Pricing Right!
To say a lot has changed this year would be an understatement. The pandemic has globally affected consumer spending across all income brackets. Moreover, an increasing number of customers are choosing to shop online rather than shopping at brick and mortar stores. Holiday forecasts predict that 30% of all 2020 holiday sales will happen online (vs. last year’s 23%). Retailers need to step up their holiday pricing strategies to make the most of this holiday season. Before you
Fiona Mathews
Dec 8, 20204 min read
3 Ways Popular Price Comparison Websites Gather Data
A few years back, a typical online buyer looking to buy apparel or an electronic gadget would scour the web to compare prices from various e-commerce sites and look for the best deals available. Prices of the same commodity would vary vastly over different sites which in turn prompted sites to monitor price changes in real-time using analysts. In today’s hyper-competitive e-commerce scenario, retail players grab every opportunity to attract potential customers. Price compari
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Dec 3, 20205 min read
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
How To Scrape Amazon Data Using Python Scrapy
To scrape data from Amazon using Python's Scrapy framework, you'll need to set up a Scrapy project, create a spider to define your scraping logic, and handle potential anti-bot measures . This involves defining items to store the scraped data, writing parsing functions to extract specific information, and potentially using proxies to avoid getting blocked by Amazon. Introduction With a large number of companies providing products, price , review, and other forms of monitorin
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Oct 21, 20207 min read
The Retailer’s Guide to Price Optimization Solutions to Increase Profits
Pricing is actually very simple. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product. ~ Ron Johnson, former CEO of J. C. Penney The ideal price is an ever-moving target. Pinpointing the true value of a product depends on several internal and external factors. Cost, brand value, promotional activity, product life cycle, competition, target consumers, government policies and economic con
Fiona Mathews
Sep 8, 20206 min read
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
FLASH SALES: How Web Scraping Helps Businesses Win Big
What differentiates a successful business from a mediocre performing business? We say it is their sales and marketing strategy . A properly planned assortment of the inventory items and offers will take you a long way. But there is one factor that can boost your already superb sales output. That factor is timing. It will help if you put web scraping to use at crucial times like holiday flash sales . Managing all these tradeoffs is a must for all retailers, especially dur
Sakshi Ragini
Nov 16, 20199 min read
Start an Online Fashion Store in 7 Simple Steps – Part 2
If you’re planning to start a business, more specifically an ecommerce venture, why not start an online fashion store ? And since you’ve got here, it would help if you got started with my introduction post Start an Online Fashion Store in 7 Simple Steps : Part 1. In the post, we discussed how to choose a niche for your online fashion store, how to select the business model on which you’ll be operating and what all should be considered while strategizing. Looking ahead, let’s
Amrin Kareem
Oct 31, 20195 min read
Start an Online Fashion Store in 7 Simple Steps – Part 1
The world is becoming fashion-savvier day by day. People are more concerned about how closely they resemble their on-screen idols. The eCommerce fashion industry is growing steadily, thanks to higher buying power among fashion consumers. As eCommerce gains importance over the traditional business , thanks to repeated discount sales, owning a clothing line or an online fashion store has economic as well as social rewards. Empowered by passion and the right set of tools, you c
Amrin Kareem
Oct 11, 20196 min read
12 Essential Key Metrics That E-commerce Businesses Must Track
Online retail or e-commerce has become a new playing arena for many companies. A lot of major e-commerce sites monitor some key indicators and metrics to study their performance against the overall trend in the industry and the market. These key metrics when used collectively, can help you study the behaviour of your customer, market trends and even product and supply chain performance. If you need a well-performing e-commerce site, you need to track all these metrics and de
Srishti Saha
Jul 2, 201910 min read
How can Web Scraping Social Media data help E-commerce Owners
E-commerce is a significant internet industry, which also makes one of the most competitive ones. Companies are looking to maximise their sales in any way they can. The data present on the web is one of the primary sources that they are using for this task. Getting social media data from different sites and social media platforms and using proper recommendation systems on them to provide the most appropriate and targeted suggestions to the consumers can go a long way in inc
Harshit Agrawal
Jan 2, 20196 min read
The Economy of the Web Scraping Industry
The web scraping industry is penetrating every other industrial vertical. With the large volumes of data available for multiple purposes, this tool is gaining more popularity than ever before. It is only fair to know the economics of this industry. It will help you understand the dynamics of this tool, how it affects your business functions and what else it can be used for. We shall try to cover some of the economic aspects of web scraping in this article. The Economy of Web
Srishti Saha
Dec 24, 20187 min read
How Web Scraping Can Optimize Online Merchandising
Today’s online shoppers don’t only buy products, but they also buy experiences. How quickly does the screen load, how seamless are the payment options; all these and more determine whether you have a loyal customer or not. A market which changes faster than the tides, its best to have your consumer hooked the moment they enter your retail space. And, the best way to do it is through online merchandising . The online consumer is often at a loss. He can’t feel the fabric, can
Anmol Chawla
Oct 13, 20186 min read
How to Use Predictive Analytics to Prevent Customer Problems Before they Arise
Prevention is better than cure. An important point to consider for a successful business is forecasting problems before they arise and act accordingly on the solution to further prevent losses a company may incur. Businesses have to take risks and suffer mishappenings if their customers pull out of a plan or scheme or return the newly based product. An example is the digital telephone industry. This industry often witnesses a certain number of users return their products wit
Rupal Mishra
Aug 6, 20185 min read
How Web Scraping can be Used to Increase Dropshipping Sales
Imagine getting an extremely relevant and vital piece of information, for as little as $3.33 per hour. How appealing it sounds? One of the key findings in Distil Networks new report, 2016 Economics of Web Scraping states that any information can be scraped. Be it an entire website, product description, customers reviews, competitor pricing or any desired information can be extracted for less than a cup of coffee. Adhering to the fact that internet is an ocean of data and th
Rupal Mishra
Jul 26, 20186 min read
Chatbots for Retail: How retailers are using chatbots to boost customer engagement
In present age, technology is developing at a pace faster than our ability to keep up with it. With technologies like embedded analytics and web scraping , the marketplace has now become a lot more competitive than it was 50 years ago. Retailers have been exploring newer technologies to build competitiveness and woo customers. But implementing a new technology is not an easy task. It requires a huge amount of resources and commitment to function effectively for your busine
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Jun 26, 20186 min read
Walmart Acquires Flipkart: Impact on the Retail Industry and Consumers
Earlier last week, the Indian retail scenario saw a major transformation with an acquisition that involved one of the biggest players in the Indian e-commerce industry and the largest retailer. On 10th May, almost everyone across various areas of interest was talking about, what is deemed to be the biggest e-commerce deal. Post 20 months of conversation, Walmart Inc. has successfully concluded by picking up a 77% stake in Flipkart for $16 billion. With the share that high and
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
May 20, 20184 min read
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 everything. Widespread usage of the internet has not only simplified day to day functioning but has also opened new avenues of possibilities one couldn’t’ imagine before. One sector that’s been tremendously affected is Retail . Since the beginning of time, people have been selling. While the process has undergone a drastic transformation in the last
Tony Paul
May 9, 20184 min read
Online vs In-Store Shopping: How Can Retailers Close the Gap Between Online & In-Store Shopping
In today’s world, the word “shopping” doesn’t only mean the purchase of a product. Rather, it’s an entire customer experience. Right from the point when you enter a store, browse through its various sections, evaluate a number of different products in the same category, wait in line at the payment counter and finally walk out with a bag in hand. The smoothness of the entire process encompasses the consumer experience. With technology growing leaps and bounds, the retail secto
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Apr 6, 20184 min read
How 2018 will Usher in the Next Disruption in Online Shopping
Humans are a creature of habit. We love our habits, but we also like them challenged. Whenever the market presents a new toy for the customer to play with, we are only awed by it for some time before integrating it into our daily lives. And so, every once in a while we like something new and shiny to catch our eye and break us away from the monotony of the world we live. The same applies to Online Shopping. Every once in a while, retailers need to present a new form of disrup
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Apr 4, 20183 min read
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