Octoparse-web scraping

  Web crawling makes it possible for all people to gather large amounts of data efficiently and save much time and effort. With the help of no-coding web crawling tools, people that know nothing about coding, ie. non-coders, are not be excluded from utilizing this technology. In this article, we will introduce you to what web crawling is, the steps to crawl a website, as well as how a no-code   web crawling tool   can help. Web Crawling Basics What is Web Crawling? Web crawling  refers to the process of  extracting specific HTML data  from certain websites by using a program or automated script. A web crawler is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for creating search engine indices. Companies like Google or Facebook use web crawling to collect data all the time. Simply put, we can view a web crawler as a particular program designed to crawl websites in orientation and glean data. However, we are unable to get the URL ad...

  Imagine your company has just developed a new type of shampoo. Wouldn’t it be great to have a list of all the beauty salon shops near you as well as those across the entire nation? Wouldn’t it be even better if you could conveniently locate their contact details, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and Facebook page? This is what lead generation does. In this article, we are going to talk about lead generation and how to harvest sales leads (email addresses) from websites. What is lead generation? Any person who expresses interest in a company’s product or service in any way, shape, or form is considered a lead. Gathering sales leads or sales lead generation is a process of attracting, nurturing, and converting potential customers into existing customers. It is one of the most important yet challenging marketing practices because it is not easy to find the right people and businesses interested in your products or services. Generating qualified leads is critical for B2B bu...

Originally published as  https://www.octoparse.com/blog/data-collection-from-websites/?blogger=   on March 1, 2022. How to collect data from websites? With the technology of web scraping, automation, and RPA, data collection can go way deeper than just bringing together copies of data. As the old saying goes, a good start is half of the success. In this article, we’ll focus on the data collection part of it, specifically, why do people collect web data, and how to get it done effectively. What’s Data Collection Data collection is the process of collecting information from one or more sources in a systematic way. In fact, this is still a vague definition and data collection practices can vary a lot in different circumstances. Regardless of how different they are, as long as the project is well defined, some things are in common: The collecting process is usually systematic in one way or another. Tools are often used to carry out the process. The data collected shall be transfor...

  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...