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Practical Uses of Web Scraper

The Internet is a huge store of world's data - be it text, media or information in any other format. Every web page in the Internet displays data in one form or the other. Access to this data is critical for the success of most businesses in the modern world. Unfortunately most of this data is not open. Most websites does not offer you the option to save the data which they display to your local storage, or to your own website. This is where a Web Scraping software like WebHarvy comes in handy.

The uses of web scraping for business and personal requirements are endless. Each business or individual has his or her own specific need for gathering data. Here we are discussing few of the common usage scenarios.

Gathering data from multiple sources for analysis

You might want to collect and analyze data related to a specific category from multiple websites. The category might be real estate, automobiles, electronic gadgets, industrial equipments, business contacts, marketing etc. The different websites which belongs to the specific category displays information in different formats. Even with a single website you may not be able to see all the data at once. The data may be spanned across multiple pages (like google search results, known as pagination or paginated lists) under various sections.

Using a Web Scraper you can extract data from multiple websites to a single spreadsheet (or database) so that it becomes easy for you to analyze (or even visualize) the data.

For Research

Data is an integral part of any research, be it academic, marketing or scientific. A Web Scraper will help you gather structured data from multiple sources in the Internet with ease.

For Businesses : Market Analysis

Companies catering products or services related to a specific domain need to have a comprehensive data of similar products and services which appear in the market every day. A Web Scraper software can be used to keep a constant watch on this data. You can get all the required information from a variety of sources at the click of a button.

For Marketing : Lead Generation

A web scraper can be used to gather contact details of bussinesses or individuals from websites like yellowpages.com or linkedin.com. Details like email address, phone, website URL etc can be easily extracted using a web sraper.

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