Octoparse-web scraping

  Originally published as  https://www.octoparse.com/blog/movie-crawler-scraping-100-000plus-movie-information/?blogger=  on February 15th, 2022. Are you looking to scrape movie data from websites like IMDb, Flixster, and Rotten tomatoes? I will introduce an easy-to-use movie scraper that you can gather all the on-page data without any coding skills. What you can get with a movie scraper This is a movie scraper that helps scrape data like: Movie name Year Category Ratings Introduction Cast Cover image (URL) And you may scrape other data such as movie reviews, or TV show information as long as they are there on the web page. You can customize your scraper to get whatever data you want once you get a hang of it. Getting Started To help you fulfill data gathering, this article will lead you through a web scraping case to scrape the information from the IMDb movie list —  IMDb Top 250 Movies . We will start from the basic information: movie name, year, featured page URLs...

  Originally published as  https://www.octoparse.com/blog/what-is-web-scraping-basics-and-use-cases/?blogger=  on January 24, 2022. A basic intro to lead you in the world of web scraping. What is web scraping? How does it work, how is it used? What are the pros and cons? All questions that concern you will be answered here. What is web scraping? Web scraping is a way to download data from web pages. You may have heard some of its nicknames like data scraping, data extraction, or web crawling. (web crawling could be narrower and refer to data scraping done by search engine bots) In most cases, they refer to the same meaning — a programmatic way to pull data from the web. Web scraping helps fetch data (like emails, phone numbers, articles, etc.) from web pages and organize it into certain formats like Excel, CSV or HTML, etc. See how  Wikipedia explains web scraping : “The content of a page may be parsed, searched, reformatted, its data copied into a spreadsheet or loa...