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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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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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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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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

A Simple Email Crawler in Python

I often receive requests asking about email crawling. It is evident that this topic is quite interesting for those who want to scrape contact information from the web (like direct marketers), and previously we have already mentioned GSA Email Spider as an off-the-shelf solution for email crawling. In this article I want to demonstrate how easy it is to build a simple email crawler in Python. This crawler is simple, but you can learn many things from this example (especially if you’re new to scraping in Python).

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Data extraction: web crawling vs. web scraping in E-commerce

Nowadays, when one has some questions, it comes almost 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 and scraping tools, which are not such well-known players, have a crucial role in wrapping up online content.

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Crawler vs Scraper vs Parser

In the post we share the differences between Crawler, Scraper and Parser.

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Development

Simple JAVA email crawler

In this post we share the code of a simple Java email crawler. It crawls emails of a given website, with an infinite crawling depth. A previous post showed us Python simple email crawler.

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Development

Node.js, Puppeteer, Apify for Web Scraping (Xing scrape) – part 2

In the post we share the practical implementation (code) of the Xing companies scrape project using Node.js, Puppeteer and the Apify library. The first post, describing the project objectives, algorithm and results, is available here.

The scrape algorithm you can look at here.

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Make crawling easy with Real Time Crawler of Oxylabs.io

logo-oxylabs-ioNowadays, it’s hard to imagine our life without search systems. “If you don’t know something, google it!” –  is one of the most popular maxims in our life. But how many people use Google in an optimal way? A lot of developers use google commands to get needed answers as fast as it possible.

Even this is not enough today! Large and small companies need terabytes of data to make their business profitable. It’s necessary to automate the search process and make it reliable to satisfy the user with fresh news, updates or posts. In today’s article we will consider a very helpful tool – Real-Time Crawler (RTC) for the collection of fresh data. Let’s start!