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Scrapy to get dynamic business directory data thru API

In this post I want to share on how one may scrape business directory data, real estate using Scrapy framework.

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Challenge Development

How do I get pass dynamic “load more” btn?

Recently I’ve got a question: How do I get pass the dynamic “load more” button using a Python web scraper?

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Development

How to connect Content Grabber with Proxy-connect

Consistent web scraping requires the use of multiple rotating proxies to prevent blocking and throttling by your target website. Let’s take the Content Grabber – a visual scraper with the Proxy-Connect rotating proxy server service for an example scrape.

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Development Review

Content Grabber Review

Content Grabber by Sequentum (now it’s the Sequentum Enterprise) is a powerful, multi-featured web scraping solution with web automation capabilities. It was developed by the folks that brought you Visual Web Ripper and it includes all the VWR features and more. In fact Content Grabber truly has raised the bar. The software is targeted at […]

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ScrapeShield – a limited feature anti-content-duplicate tool

Here we come to the next anti-scrape tool, called ScrapeShield. ScrapeShield The ScrapeShield app has been developed by CloudFlare to guard a site’s content. Its features are limited number, but it’s still an interesting tool to look at for anyone interested in web scraping.

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Review Web Scraping Software

Web Content Extractor Review

Web Content Extractor is a visual user-oriented tool that scrapes typical pages. Its simplicity makes for a quick start up in data ripping.

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Development

Puppeteer async scraper with browsers number to be tuned based on CPU capacity

Recently we’ve got a tricky website of dynamic content to scrape. The data are loaded thru XHRs into each part of the DOM (HTML markup). So, the task was to develop an effective scraper that does async while using reasonable CPU recourses.

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Pros and Cons of using Selenium WebDriver for Website Scraping

Since Selenium WebDriver is created for browser automation, it can be easily used for scraping data from the web. In this post we will consider some advantages and drawbacks of using WebDriver for web scraping.

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Development SaaS

Dexi Pipes: multi-threaded web scraping of site aggregators

Today I want to share my experience with Dexi Pipes. Pipes is a new kind of robot introduced by Dexi.io to integrate web data extraction and web data processing into a single seamless workflow. The main focus of the testing is to show how Dexi might leverage multi-threaded jobs for extraction of data from a […]

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Web Scraping Software

Dexi.io – how to improve performance

Intro Some may argue that extracting 3 records per minute is not fast enough for an automated scraper (see my last post on Dexi multi-threaded jobs). However, you should realize that Dexi extractor robots behave like a full-blown modern browser and fetch all the resources that crawled pages load (CSS, JS, fonts, etc.). In terms […]