Web Scraping Blog
Used well, web scraping is a life saver. It allows you to collect the data you need, parse it in a reusable way. We know how important it is for you to have accurate and up to date data. Since
Some pages are harder to scrape than other. In the case of infinite scrolling pages, scraping them will result in incomplete data collection. Infinite scrolling can be a way to prevent web scraping. You can read about other anti scraping
At the era of big data, web scraping is a life saver. To save even more time, you can couple ScrapingBot to a web crawling bot. What is a web crawler? A crawler, or spider, is an internet bot indexing
Web scraping is particularly interesting for retail listings. This is where a small price difference can make a huge difference to your sales volume. You can use web scraping wether you’re selling the exact same product, or an alternative. Some
Historically, ScrapingBot’s first API is the Retail API. It allows you to collect all the details you need from a product page: price, shipping fee, description, brand, and more! Our last retail website scraping example was on the number 1
Originally, ScrapingBot has been developed to collect data from product pages, such as Amazon or Ebay. Hence why you can collect very specific details like the shipping fees or the EAN. However, don’t be fooled by this, it is also very efficient
Web scraping is very useful for real estate professionals, as the housing market is one of the most dynamic ones. On our last real estate examples, we’ve scraped property listings from Funda, in Netherlands, and Rightmove in the UK. This
Even though web scraping is commonly used across most industries, most websites do not appreciate it and new anti-scraping methods are being developed regularly. The main reason is that aggressive web scraping can slow down the website for regular users,
On our last real estate example, we scraped useful data from a property listing on Funda, one of the main housing websites in the Netherlands. This time, we’re going to the UK, to scrape the real estate website Rightmove. Regarding
Web scraping is essential to keep an eye on the most dynamic markets. We’ve started by developing an API for retail, and have now released a real estate scraping API Below, we’re going to test ScrapingBot on a real estate
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