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Web Scraping and Data Extraction Service
Web scraping is the process of extracting data from web pages and converting it into structured formats like CSV or JSON. It closely relates to web indexing and has applications in price comparison, data monitoring, and social media analysis. When outsourcing web scraping services, it's important to consider factors like data accuracy and scalability.
Web Scraping and Data Extraction Service
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- 2. What is WebScraping • Web Scraping refers to an application that processes the HTML of a Web page to extract data for manipulation such as converting the Web page to another format (i.e. HTML to XML). • It is also known as Web Harvesting and Web Data Extraction
- 3. Web Scraping Architecture ImageCredits: dotnet4features
- 4. • Web Scrapingscripts and applications will simulate a person viewing a Web site with a browser. Using these scripts you can connect to a Web page and request a page, exactly as a browser would do. • The Web server will send back the page which you can then manipulate or extract specific information from.
- 5. Converting Unstructured datato Structured data Image Credits: netscavator
- 6. • Unstructured contentis largely obtained after the scraping process. Structuring the data is the tedious process. But nowadays most of the tools easily does this functionality to segregate the data based on the fields. After the segregation the data is converted into either an API or any other format like • CSV • XML • XLS • JSON
- 7. Web Indexing Image Credits:iloveldsclothing
- 8. • Web scrapingis closely related to web indexing, which indexes information on the web using a bot or web crawler and is a universal technique adopted by most search engines.
- 9. Uses of ScrapingServices Image Credits: agconexus
- 10. Following are someof the uses of Scraping service: • Online price comparison • Contact scraping • weather data monitoring • Website change detection • To collect data's for research work • web mash up • web data integration • Scraping articles blog and content • Social media crawling • Crawling review data
- 11. Outsourcing SLA forweb crawl Image Credits: cpltechnology
- 12. If you havea plan to outsource the web crawl or Scraping services, consider the following SLA's • Crawlability • Scalability • Data structure capabilities • Data accuracy • Data coverage • Availability • Adaptability • Maintainability
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