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9 Industries Benefiting from Web Scraper Octoparse

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Big data has become a fast-growing trend in nowadays’ economy, and the demands for data extraction tools like Octoparse are getting higher. This article lists 9 industries that link closely with big data, and have great demands for web scraping, and data extraction tools. Let’s see if your industry is on the list.

E-commerce

E-commerce companies use web scraping to collect competitors’ information, such as monitoring their competitor prices and title attributes, which can help them build strategies to compete against competitors. They also collect product reviews to do sentiment analysis, from which they get to know the flaws of their products and help them adjust and refine. Furthermore, reviews are very important for start-up E-commerce companies, they can use web scraping to collect reviewers’ information, which would save them much time and energy. 

Media

Media companies use web scraping to collect comments from social media and discover trending topics. Octoparse’s cloud service has the function of getting real-time data, which saves the users’ worries, and helps improve working efficiency.

Website Creation

A website creator does not write all the content on his own, especially for website types are forums, blogs, etc. Usually, he searches for articles and information from competing websites and uses the information as a reference to build his own websites. Web scraping tools can help website creators obtain demanded information quickly, and put one’s work in progress.

Real Estate

Real estate companies use web scraping to collect potential customers’ profiles, getting people’s phone numbers or E-mail addresses. 

Tourism  

Travel companies use web scraping to discover the hottest traveling spots, scrape down traveler’s profiles to see one’s traveling will, and use the information to make travel plans that suit most of the potential customers. Also, travel companies can scrape destination spot information to build their traveling plans, such as historical sites, hotels, and restaurants. (data extracted by Octoparse)

Law

Lawyers handle plenty of cases, mainly commonly seen, but there would be some strange cases they have not dealt with before. In this case, they may want to look through the past judgment of the kind. Octoparse helps them scrape down certain cases as a whole. This information may help them study cases.

Finance

Finance companies deal with massive data every day, and mostly the data reflects directly on investors’ money. Therefore, accurate data is very important for finance companies. Octoparse can help finance companies collect massive accurate data in a very short time, and help them make the best decision.

Research

Research individuals or companies need data to support their models to prove their hypotheses. There are two ways to obtain data: the first is to conduct a series of experiments to find one’s own data; the second is to scrape from former researchers’ papers or databases.  

Lead generation

Every lead generation-based company wants a tool to help them scrape customer profiles. This information is the source of their revenue, accuracy, quantity, and time, which are all important to them. They cannot fulfill three of these at the same time manually, so they use a web scraping tool to collect data.

Actually, most companies may have requests for web scraping, and data extraction tools. Since everyone has competitors in the world nowadays, they may want to collect competitor product’s prices, features, and so on. Furthermore, when companies are recruiting, they wish they can scrape down applicants’ profiles to filter the unmatched candidates. Big data is a powerful tool for most people, and Octoparse can help you get it.

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