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2022 laid off [tech] Specialists Data Set

Companies like Facebook owner Meta, e-commerce behemoth Amazon and ride-hailing firm Lyft have announced job cuts in recent weeks as the US tech industry deals with an uncertain economic climate.

DW, 01.12.2022

Data Set

So, we’ve got lists (as a data directory) of those laid off tech professionals (from open sources). If someone is interesting in the data, we would gladly share it for a cost (starting from $5 per entry). The filtering by role, expertise and location is available.

Sample

Take a look at a data sample (no emails) below.

Please enquire me at: igor [dot] savinkin [at] gmail [dot] com for a customized data set.

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What is legal: scrape, or scrape & sell, or code a scraper

Which of the following is illegal:
(1) Scrape emails from a site and send one email to each address.
(2) Scrape emails from a website and sell them.
(3) Make a scraping script and sell it without using it.
Note: The target website Terms of Use (ToU) state that no one can crawl/scrape it.

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Octoparse: how to extract GPS coordinates from Google Maps

octoparseHave 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.

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My Experience in Choosing a Web Scraping Service

 Recently I decided to outsource a web scraping project to another company. I typed “web scraping service” in Google, chose six services from the first two search result pages and sent the project specifications to all of them to get quotes. Eventually I decided to go another way and did not order the services, but my experience may be useful for others who want to entrust web scraping jobs to third party services.