Web Crawling
It all starts at the data source and deciding which data fields we need to extract. Once we have a clear understanding of the requirement we can start building a crawler to find the data in the website.
How Does a Web Scraper Work:
Depending on your requirement and expertise level you can choose any one of the following web scraping methods to get started.
Data Scraping
In this step, we extract and parse the meaningful data elements from the raw scraped data that is in HTML format. In some cases extracting data may be simple such as getting the product details, job or business listings from a web page.
Data Formatting
The data extracted using a parser won’t always be in the format that is suitable for immediate use. Most of the extracted datasets need some form of “cleaning” or “transformation”.
Pyramid of Puppeteer
Puppeteer is a node library which provides an API to control Google Chrome and Chromium. It can be used to scrape all aspects of a Chrome (or Chromium) window including the Chrome Developer Tools. Today, we’ll be scraping lobste.rs.
Web Scraping is the task of downloading a web page and extracting some kind of information from it. I recently made a little project with an Arduino board with a LCD display attached. Using Johnny-Five, which lets us program the Arduino using Node.js, I wanted to fetch the temperature measured at the top of a mountain, and show it on the Arduino board. I used Puppeteer to do the task of scraping. Puppeteer is a great tool built by Google. It’s a Node library we can use to control a headless Chrome instance. This means we are basically use Chrome, but programmatically. There are many practical uses for Puppeteer, including automating testing, make screenshots, create server-side rendered versions of single page apps, and more.
Features of Web Scraping and Data Extraction:
Get data from any website The way you need it.
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Extract data from any website
BitCot is the one-stop shop for all your web scraping, data extraction, and robotic process automation (RPA) needs.
Turn any website into an API
BitCot is a software platform that enables forward-thinking companies to leverage the full potential of the web the largest source of information ever created by humankind.
Web Scraping - Crawl arbitrary websites, extract structured data from them and export it to formats such as Excel, CSV or JSON.
Web Automation - Automate manual workflows and processes on the web, such as filling in forms or uploading files. Let robots do the grunt work.
Web Integration - Connect diverse web services and APIs, and let data flow between them. Add custom computing and data processing steps.
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No matter where you are in the planning process of your app, our experts are happy to help you. Our expert consultants discuss your plans & challenges, evaluate your existing mobile apps, or even make some initial recommendations.
How we can help you leverage web scraping to grow your business
Web scraping enables businesses to take unstructured data on the world wide web and turn it into structured data so that it can be consumed by their applications, providing significant business value.
Sales Leads
Get high-quality lists of targeted prospects for outreach campaigns. Enrich them with additional data points such as social profiles and company info for extra context.
Social Media Profiles
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, or any other platform. Gather social media data from the profiles that matter most to your business.
Recruitment
Accelerate your sourcing process with quality data on potential candidates, job listings, salary levels, trends by location, and more. Save time and make better hiring decisions.
Real Estate Data
Scraping real estate data allows you to better evaluate property value, assess rental yields, forecast market direction, and identify investment opportunities sooner.
Competitive Intelligence for E-commerce
Get data from eCommerce websites on product ratings and reviews, prices, availability, descriptions, images, and more. Gather insights that will give you an edge on your competitors.
Market Research
Save tons of time on gathering market data before you start building a new product or enter a new market, gather product reviews for sentiment analysis, and see where the untapped market opportunities are.
Data Analysis
Whether you're creating an article, report, whitepaper, or running a research project, we'll deliver you the necessary data, while you can focus on what you do best.
Price Monitoring
Stay on top of price changes that your competitors make, know the trends behind them, and set your own prices to stay competitive.
Key Benefits:
Get data from websites with pagination, with scroll, or even from behind logins. All kinds of data: text, links, images, files, Receive data in any format you need: Excel, CSV, JSON, or any other.
What They Have to Say
Watch VideoI met BitCot through Raj and quickly learned that they were able to hit the bar and keep their promises. They helped us get to our first round of investing and we’ve been scaling with them ever since. One of the highlights about BitCot is that their customer service is the best I’ve ever seen. They’re present, they’re available, they treat your product as special.
Joe Roberts,
Founder, Poured
Bitcot is fantastic when it comes to designing, development, testing, and troubleshoot the issue, The Things which we really appreciate about Bitcot & team are affordable, they are reliable, and pretty much responsive with time and all. They are best technology partner for us and they will be best for you also.
Cat Kom,
Founder, Studio SWEAT onDemand
At BitCot, I worked with Raj and his team, they are brilliant, I discussed the concept with Raj, he really helped me to map out the plan & strategy to get my concept into a real software platform. If you have an idea and you want to make it real, I would recommend Raj and his team. They are affordable, save my time, and map out the right software for me.
Patrick Hadley,
Founder, Biglio
Frequently Asked Questions
Website complexity and the amount of data you need scraped. Popular websites will be cheaper as they're requested often and the scrapers don't need a lot of customization. Other projects will be more expensive as we have to create scrapers from scratch, which takes time.
Sure, the more data you need scraped, the better price we'll be able to offer you as the most time-consuming part of the process is creating the scraper.
It depends on the requirements of your project - the more complex the websites are and the more data you need, the more time it takes to scrape them. Simple projects can be delivered even within 2-3 days, more complex ones can take up to 2 weeks.
Our customers usually get their data as CSV, Excel, or JSON files but we can offer other formats as well.
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