This case began, like many others, with cold contact with the client. In one of the Facebook groups, our employee saw a message like “Who can help me with the data scraper“? Our employee answered and the conversation began. Since then 6 months have passed, 4 of which we actively worked. During this time we […]
Scrape in 2 clicks? Ready-made scraping templates!
Is it possible to scrape data in 2 clicks? Scraping can really be a headache. There are so many sites, extracting information from which is not an obvious task. Sometimes we want to have ready-made templates for scraping – “click and use” – without any settings or reading the documentation. For example, the popular AliExpress […]
Amazon scraper
So, today we will look at data scraping from Amazon.com. It’s the largest online store in the world at the moment. Here you can find almost any goods – from clothing to sophisticated technical equipment. Amazon offers its suppliers direct delivery of goods to the customer. They also provide a continuous flow of customers to […]
Legality of data scraping — the hammer makers mystery
Data scraping is an activity on the verge of law, which has its own features and nuances. And if one day you wake up and realize that it’s time to get a bunch of fresh data, then it’s time to understand how legitimate this action is. The legality of data scraping it’s a basic thing […]
Why only x64 assembly
Keep in mind that the Data Excavator is a native indexing server and consumes a certain amount of resources, sometimes quite significant for the standard computer configuration. That’s why we don’t offer our clients to build x86 – in almost all cases the program’s work will exceed the memory limits for x86-processes and the program […]
Loading goods from suppliers websites
Working in the e-commerce segment, any seller sooner or later faces the need to collect data from the sites of various suppliers or marketplaces. Many suppliers do not provide data in a structured form, and offer to take it from a certain site or portal. Many suppliers are placed on marketplaces, and offer to use […]
Competitors prices monitoring
Working in the e-commerce segment, we often face the problem of monitoring the prices of competing projects. In today’s economy, we often cannot afford to go with the flow, as the digital era requires an immediate response to the changes around us. Even small price differences of 1-5% are important to many customers today. Without […]
What is data scraping?
Data mining, or as it is called, data extraction, is the process of extracting data from some website and exporting this data in some structured format. When we talk about the structured form, we mean a conditional “table” of data, or a library of the type “Key – value”. For various reasons, at some point […]
What is a CSS selector
What does the CSS selector look like? Please remember the basic rules for describing selectors. These are universal rules, which are suitable not only for our application, but also for any other case when you need to use .CSS selectors. To access an element by class name, use a point character concatenated with the class […]