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Have you ever wanted to get into web scraping for any particular reason in the past or even present? If you have, you’d be presented with a variety of approaches to web scraping, some of these approaches could be any of the following:
Web scraping is no doubt one of the major component technologies that has aided the web to grow so big to what we have today. This is especially true regarding search engines and other big data intensive web apps. Web scrapers have become so many and of course useful today because of the availability of what we know as Open Source Web Scraping Libraries.
Web crawling, alternatively referenced as web spidering or screen scraping, software developers define it as “writing software to iterate on a set of web pages to extract content”, is a great tool for extracting data from the web for various reasons.
Using a web crawler, you can scrape data from a set of articles, mine a large blog post or scrape quantitative data from Amazon for price monitoring and machine learning, overcome the inability to get content from sites that have no official API, or simply to build your own prototype for the next better web.
If you need to get the reviews of different products you can quickly do it in Node, as the async features of Node helps you to get the data from Amazon easily.
In this article, we will together scrape Amazon reviews and comments using only a couple of NodeJS libraries.
Have you ever tried to scrape content from any website? Maybe from Yelp?
In today’s post, we are going to see exactly that; we are going to do a step by step process to crawl Yelp reviews so you can quickly start with your crawler by following this tutorial.
Have you ever wanted to scrape javascript websites? What do we mean by javascript enabled sites?
React js, Angular, Vue, Meteor or any other website which is built dynamically or that uses ajax to loads its content.
So if you were ever stuck at crawling and scraping ajax websites or javascript websites, this article would help you.
Crawling websites is not an easy task, especially when you start doing it in thousands or millions of requests, your server will begin to suffer and will get blocked.
As you probably know, ProxyCrawl can help you to avoid this situation, but on this article, we are not going to talk about that, but instead, we are going to check how you can easily scrape and crawl any website.