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What is a Web Crawler and how does it work?

Nowadays, when having some questions, it almost comes 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/scraping tools who are not so much known players have a crucial role in wrapping up online content. Over the years, these tools have become a true game-changer in many businesses including e-commerce. So, if you are still unfamiliar with it, keep reading to learn more.

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Review

Price2Spy Web Crawling Service for the Competitors Price Scraping

The number of companies, which use web crawler, is growing rapidly due to the current competitive market conditions. As a result, the number of companies that offer this service is growing day by day. Since the purpose of web crawler varies on a case to case basis, here is a more detailed explanation of how it Price2Spy works.

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Development

Download a file from a link in Python

I recently got a question and it looked like this : how to download a file from a link in Python?

“I need to go to every link which will open a website and that would have the download file “Export offers to XML”. This link is javascript enabled.”

Let us consider how to get a file from a JS-driven weblink using Python :
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Uncategorized

What is Crawlera?

I came across this tool a few weeks ago, and wanted to share it with you. So far I have not tested it myself, but it is a simple concept- Safely download web pages without the fear of overloading websites or getting banned. You write a crawler script using scruping hub, and they will run through there IP proxies and take care of the technical problems of crawling.

Crawlera is now the Smart proxy manager 

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Development

Using DOMXPath for parsing page content in PHP

The DOMXPath class is a convenient and popular means to parse HTML content with XPath.
After I’ve done a simple PHP/cURL scraper using Regex some have reasonably mentioned a request for a more efficient scrape with XPath. So, instead of parsing the content with Regex, I used DOMXPath class methods.

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Development

Python LinkedIn downloader

We’ve done the Linkedin scraper that downloades the free study courses. They include text data, exercise files and 720HD videos. The code does not represent the pure Linkedin scraper, a business directory data extractor. Yet, you might grasp the main thoughts and useful techniques for your Linkedin scraper development.

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Challenge Development

Scrape with Google App Script

In this post I want to let you how I’ve managed to complete the challenge of scraping a site with Google Apps Script (GAS).

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Development Miscellaneous

Extracting sequential HTML elements with XPath and Regex

Often, we need to extract some HTML elements ordered sequentially rather than in hierarhical order.

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Review

Scraper Google Chrome extension

Scraper is a Google Chrome extension. Scraper is a handy scraping tool, perfect for capturing data from web pages and putting it into Google spreadsheets. This tool stands in line with the other scraping software, services and plugins.

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SaaS

Web Page Change Tracking

Often, you want to detect changes on some eBay offerings or get notified of the latest items of interest from craigslist in your area. Or, you want to monitor updates on a website (your competitor’s, for example) where no RSS feed is available. How would you do it, by visiting it over and over again? No, now there are handy tools for website change monitoring. We’ve evaluated some tools and would like to recommend the most useful ones that will make your monitoring job easy. Those tools nicely complement the web scraping software, service and plugins.