Web scraping & data mining
My goal was to retrieve data from a web business directory.
Since the business directories scrape is the most challenging task (beside SERP scrape) there are some basic questions for me to answer:
Most of the answers to the question in internet forums are given by services that automatically solve captchas. They provide services to solve CAPTCHA rather than to fully skip it.
Recently I’ve got a question:
How do I get pass the dynamic “load more” button using a Python web scraper?
We’ve already introduced you to the theory behind the new NO CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA v2, but now we come to the practical integration part. Here we’ll share how to insert and configure “NO CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA” into a web page.
Sooner or later a new generation of spam protection methods will emerge to block all unwanted site visitors. The recently launched Google “No CAPTCHA reCaptcha” or ReCaptcha v2.0 could just be such a method.
This new behaviour analysis tool is getting more and more attention both from the site owners and from scraping engines who are trying to break it. Since Google does not reveal any secrets of its operation, we want to share with you the techniques used in this new smart analysis CAPTCHA that determines between bot and human. Let s look inside.
In this post we’d like to share an interview with a young service called ScrapeHero. We’ve interviewed Tony Paul (marketing head) and this is what he had to say.
Here I’d like you to get familiar with an online scraping protection service called BotDefender. It’s interesting both to know how to use it (in case you want to protect your data) and to understand how it works in case you ever come across it while collecting data.
