We are excited to announce our next AutoExtract API: Product Reviews API (Beta). Using this API, you can get access to product reviews in a structured format, without writing site-specific code. You can use the Product Reviews API to extract product reviews from eCommerce sites at scale. Just make a request to the API and receive your data in real-time!
Web scraping projects usually involve data extraction from many websites. The standard approach to tackle this problem is to write some code to navigate and extract the data from each website. However, this approach may not scale so nicely in the long-term, requiring maintenance effort for each website; it also doesn’t scale in the short-term, when we need to start the extraction process in a...
Today we are delighted to launch a Beta of our newest data extraction API: AutoExtract Vehicle API. With this API you can collect structured data from web pages that contain automotive data such as classified or dealership sites. Using our API, you can get your data without writing site-specific code. If you need automotive/vehicle data, sign up now for a beta version of our Vehicle API.
In case you missed the first part of this series, where we went through data validation techniques, you can read it now: A Practical Guide To Web Data Extraction QA Part I: Validation Techniques
I’d like to echo Joel Gasgoine’s sentiments: This is not normal remote working!
Like Buffer, we’ve been a remote-first company for almost 10 years and we’re also adjusting to the new normal as a result of COVID-19.
When it comes to web scraping at scale, there’s a set of challenges you need to overcome to extract the data. But once you are able to get it, you still have work to do. You need to have a data QA process in place. Data quality becomes especially crucial if you’re extracting high volumes of data from the web regularly and your team’s success depends on the quality of the scraped data.
Scrapinghub is a fully distributed organization with a remote workforce spread across the globe. This structure will enable us to continue to operate at full capacity during the Coronavirus pandemic and deliver full service to our customers.
The Internet offers a vast amount of written content in the form of articles, news, blog posts, stories, essays, tutorials that can be leveraged by many useful applications:
We’re excited to announce our newest data extraction API, Job Postings API. From now on, you can use AutoExtract to extract Job Postings data from many job boards and recruitment sites. Without writing any custom data extraction code!
As a python developer at Scrapinghub, I spend a lot of time in the Scrapy shell. This is a command-line interface that comes with Scrapy and allows you to run simple, spider compatible code. It gets the job done, sure, but there’s a point where a command-line interface can become kinda fiddly and I found I was passing that point pretty regularly. I have some background in tool design and task...
