Octoparse Ecommerce Data Scraping Tool

In this article, we will look into the 3 most practical uses of a scraping tool and how the tool helps grow your business.
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/3-most-practical-uses-of-ecommerce-data-scraping-tools

In this passage, we would tell you how to identify and avoid 5 common anti-scraping techniques you may encounter.
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/5-anti-scraping-techniques-you-may-encounter

We round up 10 essential skills for data mining, including programing language, big data processing frameworks, databases, statistics, machine learning, natural processing languages, and other soft skills.
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/10-must-have-skills-for-data-mining

This article introduces 5 effective social media scraping tools for 2019. Scraping and Managing social media channels is one of the best ways for your business to stand out in its field. Start now to listen to your customers better and engage with them in new ways.
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/top-5-social-media-scraping-tools-for-2018

You're about to see the 20 best web scraping tools for 2020. These exaction tools help people obtain millions of data on a daily basis.
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/top-20-web-crawling-tools-for-extracting-web-data

Can you believe that 70% of Internet traffic was created by spiders*? It is shockingly true! There are a lot of spiders, web crawlers or searching bots busy with their jobs on the Internet. They simulate human behavior, walking around websites, clicking buttons, checking data, and bringing back information.
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/3-web-scraping-applications-to-make-money

Actually, Facebook disallows any scraper, according to its robots.txt file.

When planning to scrape a website, you should always check its robots.txt first. Robots.txt is a file used by websites to let "bots" know if or how the site should be scrapped or crawled and indexed. You could access the file by adding "/robots.txt" by the end of the link to your target website.
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/5-things-you-need-to-know-before-scraping-data-from-facebook

This article will introduce you to some basic concepts of CAPTCHA. For those who want to develop an application for web scraping, then this passage would be beneficial for you to bypass it.
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/5-things-you-need-to-know-of-bypassing-captcha-for-web-scraping

Here are a few myths about web scraping Myth 1. Web Scraping is illegal Myth; 2. Web scraping and web crawling are the same; Myth 3.You can scrape any website; Myth 4. You need to know how to code; Myth 5. You can use scraped data for anything; Myth 6. A web scraper is versatile; Myth 7. You can scrape at a fast speed; Myth 8. API and Web scraping are the same; Myth 9. The scraped data only works for our business after being cleaned and analyzed; Myth 10. Web scraping can only be used in business
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/10-myths-about-web-scraping

Web scraping has become a hot topic among people with the rising demand for big data. More and more people hunger for extracting data from multiple websites to help with their business development. Big data provides them with leading edge in their field, market trends, customer preferences, and competitors’ activities. So web scraping is more than gathering the data but an essential tactic for businesses.

However, many challenges, such as blocking mechanisms, will rise when scaling up the web scraping processes, which can hinder people from getting data. Let’s look at the challenges in detail.
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/9-web-scraping-challenges

A web scraper (also known as web crawler) is a tool or a piece of code that performs the process to extract data from web pages on the Internet. Various web scrapers have played an important role in the boom of big data and make it easy for people to scrape the data they need.
Among various web scraper, open-source web scrapers allow users to code based on their source code or framework, and fuel a massive part to help scrape in a fast, simple but extensive way.
We will walk you through the top 10 open-source web scrapers in 2020.
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/10-best-open-source-web-scraper

It goes without saying that big data analytics has a significant influence on the E-commerce industry. In this article, I will highlight 6 ways E-commerce benefits from big data analytics.
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/benefits-of-big-data-analytics-for-e-commerce

Email scraping can help you collect email addresses shown publicly using a bot. What makes this great is that you have control over where to get the email lists from, and who can opt-in. Moreover, you don’t have to rely on second-hand sources. I profiled a list of best 10 email scraping tools for sales prospecting.

https://www.octoparse.com/blog/best-email-scraping-tools-for-sales-prospecting-in-2019

In order to achieve automatic web scraping in a real sense, the Octoparse team has never slowed down its pace in making data more accessible and ready to everybody. It’s rooted in our belief that in the era of big data, anyone should be blessed with the capability to collect data so as to harness the power of big data. Web Scraping Template is a set of pre-formatted tasks ready for everyone without configuring any scraping rules nor writing code.

https://www.octoparse.com/blog/big-announcement-web-scraping-template-take-away

There are thousands of free data sets available online, ready to be analyzed and visualized by anyone. Here we’ve rounded up 70 free data sources for 2020 on government, crime, health, financial and economic data, marketing and social media, journalism, and media, real estate, company directory and review, and more.
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/big-data-70-amazing-free-data-sources-you-should-know-for-2017?qu=

To download the image for the link for free, you may want to look into “Bulk Image Downloaders”. Inspired by the inquires received, I decided to make a “top 5 bulk image downloader” list for you.
www.octoparse.com/blog/bulk-download-images-from-links-top-5-bulk-image-downloaders

Images are often the preferred medium for displaying the information across the website and you may want to save all the images from website. However, you would find it a little difficult to extract the images alone from the website as there are many other medium on the website.
www.octoparse.com/blog/free-image-extractors-around-the-web

Web crawling tools are designed to scrape or crawl data from websites. We can also call them web harvesting tools or data extraction tools (Actually they have many nicknames such as web crawler, web scraper, data scraping tool, spider)
www.octoparse.com/blog/free-online-web-crawler-tool

We selected 5 best Google Maps crawlers in 2020 and wrote reviews on features of the best crawlers out there.
www.octoparse.com/blog/google-maps-crawlers

Building a web crawler is a smart approach to aggregating big data sets. So whether you're a total beginner or seasoned pro, you'll love the powerful scraping tips in this guide.
www.octoparse.com/blog/how-to-build-a-web-crawler-from-scratch-a-guide-for-beginners

In this tutorial, let’s take a look at how to build a Twitter crawler with Octoparse within 3 minutes.
www.octoparse.com/blog/how-to-extract-data-from-twitter

Nowadays people use PDF on a large scale for reading, presenting and many other purposes. And many websites store data in a PDF file for viewers to download instead of posting on the web pages, which brings changes to web scraping. You can view, save and print PDF files with ease. But the problem is, PDF is designed to keep the integrity of the file. It is more like an "electronic paper" format to make sure contents would look the same on any computer at any time. So it is difficult to edit a PDF file and export data from it.
Fortunately, there are some solutions that help extract data from PDF into Excel and we are going to introduce them in this blog post.

www.octoparse.com/blog/how-to-extract-pdf-into-excel

There is a lot of data presented in a table format inside the web pages. However, it could be quite difficult when you try to store the data into local computers for later access. The problem would be that the data is embedded inside the HTML which is unavailable to download in a structured format like CSV. Web scraping is the easiest way to obtain the data into your local computer for anytime access.
www.octoparse.com/blog/scrape-data-from-a-table

Web scraping is a technique often employed for automating human’s browsing behavior for the purpose of retrieving large amounts of data from webpage efficiently.

While various web scraping tools, like Octoparse, are getting popular around and benefits people substantially in all fields, they come with a price for web owners. A straightforward example is when web scraping overloads a web server and leads to a server breakdown. More and more web owners have equipped their sites with all kinds of anti-scraping techniques to block scrapers, which makes web scraping more difficult. Nevertheless, there are still ways to fight against blocking. In this article, we will talk about 5 tips you can follow to overcome blocking.
www.octoparse.com/blog/scrape-websites-without-being-blocked

You're about to see the 20 best web scraping tools for 2020. These exaction tools help people obtain millions of data on a daily basis.
www.octoparse.com/blog/top-20-web-crawling-tools-for-extracting-web-data?qu=