Ways to Bypass Anti Scraping Tools on Websites
In this era of tremendous competition; enterprises use all methods within their power to get ahead. For businesses, the unique tool to ace this game is web scraping. But this too isn’t a field without obstacles. Websites employ different anti scraping tools and techniques to block your crawlers from scraping their websites. But there is […]
Read MoreHow to Build a Price Comparison Website
Creating a Price Comparison Website building price comparison websites has shot into popularity, courtesy of the eCommerce revolution. The ability to check the price of a product on numerous e-commerce portals in one place brings convenience and saves time. It offers a lucrative business opportunity by drawing significant revenue from affiliate sales and advertising. Starting […]
Read MoreMy Web Data Crawler is Broken – How do I Fix It?
In an era of increasing digitalization, data is the new currency. It is one of many factors that will decide if you can keep up with your competitors. The more data one has, the more advantageous it will be to him. And one way of getting the data is through web data crawler. Fig: Web […]
Read MoreHow Do APIs Work?
API, short for Application Programming Interface, is a software intermediary (think of it as a human translator) that allows two applications to talk to each other. Image someone who speaks only French needs to talk to someone who can converse only in Japanese. They would require someone who knows both languages to work as an […]
Read MoreScrape Hotel Data from Booking.com
The COVID-19 pandemic hit every section of society and had an impact on almost all major industries. However, one sector that was hit the worst is travel and transport. Flight bookings were down, hotels were closed, no one was renting cars for sightseeing, all cruise ships were docked– a complete nightmare played out as the […]
Read MorePredatory Pricing in the Pulse Oximeter Category by E-commerce Sellers
Of all the magnanimous shifts brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic and social, the shift in consumer product demand has been the least talked about. The word oximeter was probably unheard of before March 2020. And now it has become a household staple, third only to face masks and hand sanitisers. Almost every family […]
Read MoreTakeaways from PromptCloud’s demo at Unpluggd
Last weekend was eventful at Unpluggd with scores of entrepreneurs, techies, investors and fellow startup community members coming together to unveil a landscape that’s only imaginable. Implying, only when you attend something like this do you realize with what pace the startup culture is evolving and what’s trending (this time around I gathered it was […]
Read MoreIdentifying Influencers Using Social Media Crawling
Advertising pre-social media slides towards the more creative side of the industry and the Advertiser decides what kind of content attracts the potential target audience for the brand. The advertiser here is generally the senior person in the company with the most years of experience credited to their name. Not to undermine their experience, but […]
Read MoreLeapfrogging With Structured Data
Going back a few years, when some of the media and investors are quizzing Mr. Mukesh Ambani, why was an oil company like RIL (Reliance Industries) spending 10’s of billions of dollars on a telecom network? Mr. Ambani replied, “Data is the new oil.” While the commodification of data in Jio’s context is different from […]
Read MoreIntroducing Ready-to-use Big Data Packages
In response to the hustle in the market, we have recently launched ready-to-use data packages for some popular websites which carry a lot of relevant and meaningful information for businesses to function. Our powerful crawlers have already crawled millions of URL’s in this regard and our extractors have structured this data with relevant attributes. These […]
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