Octoparse-web scraping

With the increasing demand for data, more and more people began crawling web pages to get access to oceans of data. Therefore, Web Crawling is serving as an ascendingly important role to help people with data needs to fetch data meeting their requirements. Till now, there are three most common methods for people to crawl web data - Utilizing the public APIs provided by the target websites; Programming and build crawler on your own; Using some automated web crawler tools. Based on my user experience, I will mainly discuss several free online web crawler tools in the following section for the reference of web crawler beginners. Before my introduction about the online web crawler tools, we should learn first about what is the web crawler meant for? Well, the web crawler tool is designed to scrape or crawl data from websites. We can also call them web harvesting tools or extraction tools. It can automate the crawling process at a faster speed and harvest data on a large scale. People wh...

Web scraping  (also termed web data extraction, screen scraping, or web harvesting) is a web technique of extracting data from the web, and turning unstructured data on the web into structured data that can be stored to your local computer or a database. The web scraping technique is implemented by web scraping software tools. These tools interact with websites in the same way as you do when using a web browser like Chrome. In addition to display the data in a browser, web scrapers extract data from web pages and store them to a local folder or database. There are lots of web scraping software tools around the web. In this post, I’m going to make a huge list that complies 30 popular free web scraping software around the web.   1. Beautiful Soup   Beautiful Soup  is a Python library designed for web-scraping HTML and XML files. You can install this free web scraping software If you run Debian or Ubuntu system.  2. Octoparse ...

A social media scraper often refers to an automatic web scraping tool that extracts data from social media channels, which not only include social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn…etc., but also include blogs, wikis, and news sites. All of these portals share something in common - they are all yielding user-generated content in the form of unstructured data that is accessible only through the web. ow we know the definition of social media scraper, I am going to further illustrate how social media dataset can be used in business and list out the top 5 social media scraping tools that I will recommend to anyone.  (Image Source:  Will big data change how you use social media? ) What can you do with scraped data from social media? Data scraped from social media, is undoubtedly the largest and most dynamic dataset about human behavior, bringing social scientists and business experts brand new opportunities to understand individu...