Finding Gold — Web Scrapping

Guess what’s common between all of the below:-

• an entrepreneur envisaging a new start-up
• CEO of a Fortune 500 company
• an equity analyst
• a marketer, and
• a journalist

Well, they all derive their strategies and insights from data!

“Data is the new oil”

Which is not really true since data is far more productive. It can be captured, used and reused. It generates value and benefits to humans that will help tackle big issues from education and healthcare to reducing hunger to fighting climate change.

Its right time for all of us to get introduced to this enthu man — Bob who is really hardworking but baffled now to fulfill his need. He is in search of Gold.

Collecting Data

Let’s say, data is vital for your e-commerce company and you are able to see the data on your competitor’s website. And an obvious question that strikes you mind is — how will you download it in a usable format?

One solution is to copy-paste everything which is really laborious and nearly impossible from some really tough competitor as Facebook or Twitter.

Whether you want to start a new project or churn out a new strategy for an existing business you need to invariably access and analyze a vast amount of data and without second thought you should Scrap it.
A thought is that web scraping…