Imagine a long crawling process, like extracting data from a website for a whole month. We can start it and leave it running until we get the results. Though, we can agree that a whole month is plenty of time for something to go wrong. The target website can go down for a few minutes/hours, there can be some sort of power outage in your crawling server or even some other internet connection...
A reliable and scalable way to tap into blog comment driven insights
We are excited to announce our newest data extraction API. The Blog Comments API is now publicly available as a BETA release.
What is Price Intelligence?
Price Intelligence is leveraging web data to make better pricing, marketing, and business decisions. Basically, it is all about making use of the available data to optimize your pricing strategy, making it more competitive, increasing profitability, and ultimately, improving your business performance.
In this blog post you are going to learn what’s the main difference between data center proxies and residential proxies. When to use data center and residential proxies in your web data extraction project to maximize successful requests
In this article we give you some insight on how you can scale up your web data extraction project. You will learn what are the basic elements of scaling up and what are the steps that you should take when looking for the best rotating proxy solution.
Hassle-Free, Structured, Machine-ReadableJob Postings Data
We are excited to announce our newest data extraction API. The Job Postings API is now out of BETA and publicly available as a stable release.
The web is complex and constantly changing. It is one of the reasons why web data extraction can be difficult, especially in the long term. It’s necessary to understand how a website works really well, before you try to extract data. Luckily, there are lots of inspection and code tools available for this and in this article we will show you some of our favorites.
Article and news data extraction is becoming increasingly popular and widely used by companies. Data quality plays a vital role in making sure these projects succeed. If the quality of the extracted articles is not good enough, your whole business could be at risk, especially if it depends on the constant flow of high quality article data.
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, we at Scrapinghub began to wonder how it would impact on the data we crawl, and whether that data could tell us something useful about the pandemic and its impact.
In case you missed them, here’s the first part and second part of the series.
