Insights
through
web scraping
Gain valuable insights into your industry through automated extraction of data from websites.
Stay ahead of the competition with our powerful and secure web scraping services.
What do we offer?
In addition to the development of scraping bots, we implement the acquired data into the existing marketing & sales strategy.
Price Bot:
How do you compare to the competi-
tors in terms of price?
Content Bot:
Which content is published by the competitors?
Jobs Information Bot:
Information about different jobs
Technical Bot:
Get notified when your competitor’s website changed
What is
web scraping?
Web scraping refers to the automated extraction of data from websites. There are different methods to perform web scraping, but generally they all follow a similar process.
First, a website or collection of websites is selected for the data to be extracted. Then, the relevant data is extracted from the chosen web pages and converted into a structured format for further processing.
How does web
scraping work?
One of the most common methods of web scraping is extracting data from websites using scripts. This involves using special software to analyze the HTML structure of the website and extract the required data. This can be done by writing scripts manually to derive specific data from a website. Alternatively, specific tools can be used to automate the process of scripting and data extraction.
Another method of web scraping is the use of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). APIs are special interfaces provided by websites to help developers access their data. Web scraping with APIs usually requires less technical knowledge and is faster and more efficient than extracting data from websites manually. API scraping is also easier as the structure and content of the data to be accessed is clearly defined. However, not all websites provide APIs, or access to APIs may be restricted.
To perform web scraping, different technologies are needed, depending on which method is used. If manual scripts are written to extract data, programming skills in languages such as Python, Java, or Ruby are usually required.
Firstly, you can see an example of the jobs website below
Secondly, after understanding what data we need, scraping begins...
Using our magic scraping, we can archive impressive results
FAQ
Web scraping is the automated extraction of data from websites. With web scraping, companies can gather valuable information from public sources to gain competitive advantage, conduct market research, or optimize their business processes. For example, companies can use web scraping to collect pricing information from competitors, analyze social media posts, or extract customer data from online directories.
We only collect data that is freely available on the internet. In principle, we automate a process that can also be done manually. Before each project, we check the legality of the data collection on a case-by-case basis.
Basically, all data from websites can be extracted, e.g. content, titles, prices, descriptions, dates, etc.
We usually deliver the data as Excel or Google Sheet or as .csv. If a different format is required, this should be clarified in advance.
The price depends on a number of factors:
(I) How often does the data need to be retrieved? Monthly, weekly, daily, hourly, etc.?
(II) How many competitors should be included in the monitoring?
Yes. For more information, contact us at marketing@lean-sharp.ch
