Have you ever thought you could make money by knowing how many restaurants there are in a square mile? There is no free lunch, however, if you know how to use Google Maps, you can extract and collect restaurants’ GPS’s and store them in your own database. With that information in hand and some math calculations, you are off to creating a big data online service.
Month: November 2019
Nowadays, when one has some questions, it comes almost naturally for us to just type it in a search bar and get helpful answers. But we rarely wonder how all that information is available and how it appears as soon as we start typing. Search engines provide easy access to information, but web crawling and scraping tools, which are not such well-known players, have a crucial role in wrapping up online content.
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Crawler vs Scraper vs Parser
In the post we share the differences between Crawler, Scraper and Parser.
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Simple JAVA email crawler
In this post we share the code of a simple Java email crawler. It crawls emails of a given website, with an infinite crawling depth. A previous post showed us Python simple email crawler.