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Discover the latest insights, tips, and strategies for web scraping and data extraction. Our blog covers everything from practical tutorials and best practices in web scraping to advanced use cases, industry trends, and no-code tools that simplify data collection.

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May 22, 2024

A Comprehensive Guide to Web Scraping with Selenium WebDriver in Python

Unlike other libraries, Selenium uses a Google Chrome WebDriver (whether in active or headless)mode for scraping, which makes the process more like manual data collection.

Tools and Libraries Python

Apr 30, 2024

How to Use cURL in Python

cURL is a handy query utility that supports most transfer protocols. The LibcURL API was created for its use in one's own programs. And for use in Python was created a thin wrapper above libcURL which is called PycURL.

Python Tools and Libraries

Apr 30, 2024

Web Scraping with Python: from Fundamentals to Practice

Web scraping with Python is a great way to gather data from the internet. It is a powerful, easy-to-learn programming language that makes web scraping more straightforward than other methods.

Python Tools and Libraries

Apr 30, 2024

5 Chrome DevTools Tips & Tricks for Scraping

DevTools is a set of developer utilities that are built into the browser and make one's work more comfortable. This article will describe 5 tips & tricks for Chrome DevTools that we use for scraping and developing frontend or backend applications.

Basics Tools and Libraries

Apr 30, 2024

The Ultimate CSS Selectors Cheat Sheet for Web Scraping

Each site has its own structure, which contains elements of the same type. For their web scraping, CSS selectors are useful. They are used for selecting elements of the same type on all pages of the website.

Basics

Nov 5, 2024

Web Scraping in Real Estate: Use Cases & Data Sources

Real estate web scraping is the collection of real estate and consumer data from web pages to identify vacant properties, analyze consumer needs, investment opportunities, and price optimization.

Basics Real Estate Use Cases

Apr 30, 2024

The 7 Best Free Proxies for Web Scraping

You can't do web scraping without proxies on a large scale. And the main reason is that you won't get through the restrictions on multiple requests to a site from a single IP address without a proxy.

Basics

Apr 30, 2024

How to Scrape Yelp Using Node.js

We’ve prepared a tutorial in which we will make a Yelp scraper that can take a link to a business directory, go to each business page, and collect needed information.

Use Cases Business NodeJS

May 22, 2024

Web Scraping vs API: The Best Way to Extract Data

Web Scraping API is another way to get HTML pages and solves several problems in the process, such as proxy configuration, infrastructure support and blocking bypass.

Basics

Jul 12, 2024

Web Scraping: What It Is and How to Use It

Web scraping is the process of automated content and data gathering on the Internet. Typically, it uses software that simulates human web surfing to extract data. The resulting data is stored in a local file for later viewing and analysis.

Basics