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Web Scraping: Scrape JavaScript Rendered Webpages

avatarAnsel Barrett
JS is a dynamic computer programming language and you may encounter JS webpages during web scraping. How to scrape JS web pages? This is what we will discuss in this article.
2021-01-31T00:00:00+00:00 · 1 min read

Build a URL Scraper Within Minutes

avatarAnsel Barrett
Building a scraper is not a privilege for coders. There are two ways you can build a URl scraper to scrape links from websites automatically with Octoparse.
2021-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read

Making a Simple Web Scraper with a Coding-free Tool like Octoparse

avatarAbigail Jones
Making a web scraper is very easy. You don't need to write codes to build it. By the time you finish reading this article, you will be able to build a web crawler with your mouse in 10 minutes.
2021-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read

Cragslist CAPTCHA Bypass

avatarAnsel Barrett
Captcha makes scraping from Craigslist truly challenging. You would need proxies for this or just pick a web scraping tool that can handle it.
2021-01-22T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read

Scrape Reviews on Booking.com

avatarAbigail Jones
Octoparse can be used to scrape reviews on Booking.com and this is the guide. The same method can be used to scrape hotel data, or even data on any websites.
2021-01-21T00:00:00+00:00 · 2 min read

Data Extraction 101: How to Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages

avatarAnsel Barrett
Structured data refers to the data that is organized, processed and accessed in a high level of categorization, stored mainly in a relational database. You can use two-dimensional table structure to logically implement the data.
2021-01-21T00:00:00+00:00 · 2 min read

How to Maintain Data Quality While Web Scraping

avatarAnsel Barrett
Web scraping helps get data at large scale. However, it is important to maintain data quality, to get high-quality, accurate data. Here are tips on how to maintain data quality while web scraping.
2021-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read

Data Collection – The First Step of Business Intelligence

avatarAbigail Jones
Data Collection - The First Step of Business Intelligence Business intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process for analyzing data and presenting actionable information to help corporate executives, business managers, and other end users make more informed business decisions. The ability to analyze and act on data is increasingly important to businesses. The pace of change requires companies to be able to react quickly to changing demands from customers and environmental conditions. Although prompt action may be required, decisions are increasingly complex as companies compete in a global marketplace.
2021-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 · 1 min read

Octoparse vs. Content Grabber comparison: which is better for web scraping?

avatarAbigail Jones
Which is the best custom scraper focused on our specific needs and scrape everything? In this post, I will compare the web scraper Octoparse and Content Grabber to give you some insights before choosing the web scraping service that will serve you for a long time for data extraction.
2021-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 · 6 min read

10 Questions to Ask Before Proceeding with Web Scraping

avatarAbigail Jones
While your business competitors are seeking competitive edges from the seemingly endless supply of information on the Internet, there’s literally no reason for you to sit around and just wait to be left behind your competition. With web scraping, we can fetch the information we want in seconds and retrieve huge value behind it. But before we dive in, here are the 15 questions you may want to ask yourself.
2020-01-06T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read