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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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Fiona Mathews
- Jan 15
- 4 min
Web Data Integration: The Answer To Your Data Consistency and Quality Concerns
Businesses today have access to an enormous amount of data, with over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data getting generated every day. There is no shortage of web data and almost all businesses leverage it for valuable insights and improving performance. The data that is often painstakingly extracted, probably paying a considerable amount, begs several questions. Is the data clean? Are there any consistency issues? Is the data reliable? This is where web data integration (WDI) come
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Fiona Mathews
- Dec 8, 2020
- 4 min
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 b
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Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
- Nov 23, 2020
- 7 min
How to Bypass Anti-Scraping Tools on Websites
It is this era of tremendous competition; enterprises use all methods within their power to get ahead. For businesses, the unique tool to achieve this supremacy is Web scraping. But this too isn’t a field without hurdles. Websites employ various anti-scraping techniques to block you from scraping their websites. But there is always a way around. What do we know about Web Scraping? The WWW harbors more websites than you can imagine. Some of them might be of the same domain as
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Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
- Aug 22, 2020
- 4 min
Top 5 Open Source Web Scraping Frameworks and Libraries
Web scraping is a process to extract data from websites. The extracted data can then be transformed and analyzed in other formats like XML, CSV, and JSON to perform other tasks as per needs. In this post, we are going to discuss various open-source web scraping frameworks and libraries available in Python. Among the plethora of web scrapers available, there are some good open-source web scraping frameworks and libraries which allow users to code based on their source code. In
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Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
- Aug 12, 2020
- 7 min
How to Build a Web Crawler in Python from Scratch
How often have you wanted a piece of information and have turned to Google for a quick answer? Every information that we need in our daily lives can be obtained from the internet. This is what makes web data extraction one of the most powerful tools for businesses. Web scraping and crawling are incredibly effective tools to capture specific information from a website for further analytics and processing. If you’re a newbie, through this blog, we aim to help you build a web cr
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Tony Paul
- Apr 9, 2020
- 5 min
Cost control for web scraping projects
With the COVID-19 impacting businesses greatly, companies are now looking for ways to cut costs wherever possible. Some businesses are spending a lot on acquiring web data for their operations, and controlling the cost of web scraping projects can be a massive help for them. This blog is ideal for an audience who are spending at least $5000 per month for web data extraction to see a significant result. However, the ideas can be used by anyone; after all, a dollar saved is a d
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Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
- Mar 27, 2020
- 5 min
Hotel Pricing: Use Web Scraping to Price your Hotel Right
The hospitality industry is steadily growing over the years and shows no sign of slowing down. Digitally literate travelers are making use of online platforms for planning, booking, and experiencing a journey. Not to be left behind, the hospitality industry is increasingly getting to grips with the concept of big data and the numerous ways in which the use of web data in the right hotel pricing can help them in revenue generation and provide a better customer experience. Why
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Tony Paul
- Mar 18, 2020
- 5 min
COVID-19 And Predatory Pricing Online
This blog an investigation into unfair pricing practices by sellers on amazon during COVID-19. We also look into some other details around reviews, discounts, and the time of listing of products. You can download the reference data here – Reference data. As the world fights to contain the COVID-19. coronavirus disease, some people are using it as an opportunity to rip off people. Many countries are facing massive shortages of supply of masks. On Amazon and other eCommerce we
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Sakshi Ragini
- Jan 29, 2020
- 7 min
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 to select th
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Lozima Kham
- Nov 29, 2019
- 5 min
Web Scraping For Lead Generation: Get High-Quality Sales Leads
Web scraping is influencing digital marketing strategies in a big way. Therefore, let’s talk about how effective is web/data scraping for lead generation. One of the highest priorities of any marketer is lead generation. However, getting high-quality sales leads is the ultimate intention. More so, convertible leads help shorten customer acquisition cycle. You can be a big or a small business, and planning marketing strategies that convert is necessary. What is web scraping? T
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Sakshi Ragini
- Nov 16, 2019
- 9 min
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 during h
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Srishti Saha
- Nov 7, 2019
- 5 min
How can the travel industry benefit from data scraping
The travel industry is a major service sector in most countries these days. It is also a major employment and revenue provider. This demands a lot of constant innovation and maintenance. The travel industry is a dynamic industry where the needs and preferences of a customer change every moment. The market players in this field need to keep up with the trends in the industry, the choices of the customers and even on the details of their own historical performance to perform be
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Sakshi Ragini
- Oct 25, 2019
- 5 min
Price Comparison On Amazon: How Web Scraping helps Companies win the E-commerce Game
Rudderlessly moving around in the market to buy products has become old-fashioned. The millennial is using e-commerce websites like Amazon which has cut the chase of shopping while allowing you to find your best buy. This is possible through exceptional lead generation techniques and web scraping for e-commerce. Among the numerous factors influencing the customer purchasing decision, pricing tops the list. While customers struggle with the purchase decision, e-commerce websit
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Kartik Singh
- Jun 15, 2019
- 7 min
Scraping Nasdaq news using Python
Stock trading has one of the most complex and complicated dynamics in the present day world. In today’s time, multiple algorithms and researches have been produced to understand the complexity of the stocks trading. There is an increasing effort to understand the system dynamics of stock trading to predict the emergent behaviour of the stock prices. In order to predict stock prices adequately, one needs to have access to historical data of the stock prices. Mostly, you will b
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Srishti Saha
- Apr 28, 2019
- 7 min
How Web Scraping Helps Private Equity Firms Improve Due Diligence Efficiency
The private equity market is a hyper-competitive arena speckled with investors trying to look for reliable methods to find market indicators that can help them draw insights and thus, place better bids. This requires a considerable amount of due diligence to be conducted before making the decision. ‘Due diligence’ in this context refers to an audit of a potential investment or product to confirm the veracity of all facts, that might include the review of financial records. Th
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Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
- Apr 22, 2019
- 6 min
12 ways our customers are using real estate market data
Historically, real estate has been a big player in the investment market and it will remain so. The reason is simple: we all need real estate to build homes and run businesses. Getting the best value out of real estate investment is difficult but not impossible. Sensing the market dynamics and finding opportunities is the key. There are many people who made it big in real estate: Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran and US President Donald Trump are good examples. Real estate is
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Kartik Singh
- Mar 8, 2019
- 7 min
Scraping Yahoo Finance Data using Python
Financial market data is one of the most valuable data in the current time. If analysed correctly, it holds the potential of turning an organisation’s economic issues upside down. Among a few of them, Yahoo finance is one such website which provides free access to this valuable data of stocks and commodities prices. In this blog, we are going to implement a simple web crawler in python which will help us in scraping yahoo finance website. Some of the applications of scraping
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Srishti Saha
- Feb 13, 2019
- 7 min
Datahut vs. Import.io: Which Alternative is better for Web Scraping?
The web scraping industry is growing by leaps and bounds. The economy of this data extraction industry is strengthening with the growing volume and variety of data. Businesses all over the world are driving value out of web-scraping services. As a result of this, you have a lot of enterprises that provide web-scraping services. They scrape data from the desired websites and store them in structured files for you. All you have to do after that is use the data in the desired pi
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Srishti Saha
- Feb 1, 2019
- 6 min
Busting 8 myths about Web scraping
If you are reading this article, you are either interested in learning about web scraping, investing in it or exploring ways to use scraping to grow your business. Enterprises are gradually discovering varied applications of web scraping each day. However, scraping as an activity is surrounded by a lot of misconceptions, myths and misunderstandings. A lot of these myths about web scraping have often caused people to be sceptical about adopting the method for data gathering. I
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Harshit Agrawal
- Jan 17, 2019
- 5 min
How can Web Scraping help in Cryptocurrency Trading?
Cryptocurrency arrived at the global stage not too long ago but has already become one of most sought after technologies already. With a future of promising growth ahead, agencies are looking to get their hands into the blockchain market any way they can. Cryptocurrency trading and exchange are highly data dependent. Having the data of past prices and factors affecting the costs in future can go a long way in figuring out which cryptocurrency to invest in, which transaction t
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