Blog about web scraping, automation and robots.
DIY platforms work ok for simple data scraping, but they have very limited functionality and requires you to spend time on learning these softwares. Custom built scraper can do anything, there is no limitation, no need to learn any software, Just find a good professional/company to create scraper for you can, provide all the requirements and get the data needed software or data.
Recently one of our clients contacted us to extract data from amazon, the required data was available on amazon but was not easy to extract. Client wanted to do some analysis and needed top 1000 products is some categories by the amazon sales rank. For example lets assume that he wanted this for the Women Wrist Watches category.
Monitoring competitors's prices is something that every online seller will do, and if you have a long list of products, manual price monitoring can be a time consuming and boring task. In this blog post i will write about why price monitoring tools are important and how it can save time and be helpful to make better decisions about pricing your products.
Automating desktop applications can be difficult . Web bots are usually used to automate tasks in a browser, but some times tasks we need to automate are not completely browser based and need other software to be automated also.