What is web scraping, what is it for?
We all know there is humongous public data over the internet. It is estimated that every day the world generates 402.74 million terabytes of data. Now, assume you need to collect few amount of data from that huge mass of data over the internet. Manually, it’s almost impossible. Now we need a mechanism that can automate the process of collecting data we need which is called web scraping or web data scraping.
Generally, there are two famous terms in use. Crawling and Parsing. Crawling means simply visiting the website page and parsing means, fetching the data required from the crawled page.
web scraper what is:
Someone who does web scraping are, in general called web scraper. There expertise is in writing codes for building web scraper.
Web Scraping, Who is it for?
Any researcher or business professional seeking to make data-driven decisions based on precise data metrics. For personal projects or business initiatives by aggregating data from multiple sources as a listing website.
For anyone trying to collect leads or gather user information from public websites efficiently. For projects where reporting relies heavily on accurate and structured data.
There are many other multiple use cases as well depending upon the industries and business needs. These are some of them based on what few of our customers do with data scraping.
Web Scraping How to do it?
There are multiple approaches, How it can be done:
- Need developers who can write the codes for scraping as per your need
- There are few tools in the market, even AI tools these days for it.
- Get consulting from a company like “GetDataForMe” which provides web scraping and entire data pipeline service at recurring cost. They manage everything for you.
How GetDataForMe does it:
Our service just not include providing you scraper to scrape data but making sure you get it regularly with no issues.
Web Scrapers are not like writing codes for a web application. Web Scraping has different challenges like, the website from where we are scraping might have several web scraping measures applied like, rate limiter, Captcha or firewalls. In such cases, the scrapers start to fail and you don’t get the data you wish for. So at Getdataforme we make sure we handle all those obstacles for our customers and they can just focus on data and It’s usage to their business.