Let me tell you what you already know! Octoparse is a great web scraping tool! But like every great tool, it’s got its limitations. At times, you may wonder if there are any alternatives to Octoparse. We wondered the same and put together this blog to provide you a short list of Octoparse alternatives along […]
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Selenium Web Scraping in simple words
Question: What is Selenium web scraping? Answer: A picture is better than 1000 words: So, you make a program with Python, PHP, JAVA, Ruby and whatever language you use in order to browse(), select(), click(), submit(), save(), etc., target web pages.
Linkedin scrape guide lines
The LinkedIn crawl success rate is low; one request that a bot makes might require several retries to be successful. So, here we share the crucial Linkedin scraping guide lines. Rate limit Limit the crawling rate for LinkedIn. The acceptable approximate frequency is: 1 request every second, 60 requests per minute. Public pages only LinkedIn […]
Online marketplacesIn the marketplaces people offer their products for sale. Similar to garage sales, but online. (eg. eCrater, www.1188.no).Easy to scrape since they are usually free and do not tend to protect their data. Business directoriesThe usually huge online directories targeted at the general audience. (eg. Yellow Pages). They do protect their data to avoid […]
Crawler vs Scraper vs Parser
In the post we share the differences between Crawler, Scraper and Parser.
Recently I got a question from one of the blog readers. After I replied to it, I decided to share it with a wider audience. Question: Hi, I found your [web]scraping.pro site and found it very helpful, then realized the web scraper solutions rating was from 2014. What is the best solution for today? I have […]
In this post I’d like to share my experience with scraping data aggregator/business directory using the residential proxy of the Bright Data proxy provider in conjuction with its proxy manager.
Web Scraping with Node.js
The web scraping topic has been actively growing in popularity for dozens of years now. Freelance sites are overcrowded with orders connected with this contradictory data extracting process. Today we will combine two new and revolutionary directions in web development. So, let’s consider an elegant and modern way to scrape data from websites with Node.js!