Web Scraping & Data Scraper Software
Build a system for scraping from business directory or ecommerce platform. My scraping program can get data from various sites automatically and be able to run as schedule, i.e per week, per day. And It can write data on database and excel.
What Is Data Scraping?
Data scraping, also known as web scraping, is the process of importing information from a website into a spreadsheet or local file saved on your computer. It’s one of the most efficient ways to get data from the web, and in some cases to channel that data to another website. Popular uses of data scraping include:
- Research for web content/business intelligence
- Pricing for travel booker sites/price comparison sites
- Finding sales leads/conducting market research by crawling public data sources (e.g. Yell and Twitter)
- Sending product data from an e-commerce site to another online vendor (e.g. Google Shopping)
Web Scraping, Web Harvesting, or Web Data Extraction
Data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may access the World Wide Web directly using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or through a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to automated processes implemented using a bot or web crawler. It is a form of copying, in which specific data is gathered and copied from the web, typically into a central local database or spreadsheet, for later retrieval or analysis.
Data Scraper extracts data out of HTML web pages and imports it into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
Extract data from dynamic web sites
Web Scraper can extract data from sites with multiple levels of navigation. It can navigate a website on all levels.
- Categories and subcategories
- Pagination
- Product pages
