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Scraping Decathlon using Playwright in Python

Thasni M A

May 5, 202313 min read

Scraping Decathlon using Playwright in Python

Decathlon is a rеnownеd sporting goods rеtailеr that offеrs a divеrsе rangе of products, including sports apparеl, shoеs and еquipmеnt....

How to Build an Amazon Price Tracker using Python

Tony Paul

Jul 22, 20226 min read

How to Build an Amazon Price Tracker using Python

Everybody loves to get their products on amazon at their lowest prices. I have a bucket list full of electronic gadgets that I am waiting...

Predatory Pricing of eCommerce companies in the pulse oximeter category: Data & Insights

Tony Paul

May 20, 202111 min read

Predatory Pricing of eCommerce companies in the pulse oximeter category: Data & Insights

With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the market for medical equipment for at-home health monitoring has witnessed a boom. One of...

The Indian Washing Machine Market: Product Category Analysis and Insights

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan

May 12, 20216 min read

The Indian Washing Machine Market: Product Category Analysis and Insights

The Indian washing machines market is expected to grow between 3 - 4 CAGR from 2021 to 2025. For a country with over a billion people,...

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Why Data Scraping is the Next Frontier in Battle for Investment Returns

Tony Paul

Aug 30, 20172 min read

Why Data Scraping is the Next Frontier in Battle for Investment Returns

There is a reason why investment firms exalt the importance of data scraping. There was a time when a money manager would assess sales...

How Web Analytics is Driving a Booming E-Retail Industry

Tony Paul

Jul 17, 20174 min read

How Web Analytics is Driving a Booming E-Retail Industry

In the era of online marketing, change is the only constant. As new tactics to successfully navigate the market are devised every day,...

Scrape The Internet To Get Training Data For Your Machine Learning Model

Tony Paul

May 26, 20173 min read

Scrape The Internet To Get Training Data For Your Machine Learning Model

Have you seen the latest season of the Silicon Valley series? In the series, Erlich Blachman is asking Jian Yang to scrape the internet...

Product Assortment For Retailers In Layman’s Terms

Jezeel MK

May 1, 20174 min read

Product Assortment For Retailers In Layman’s Terms

Product assortment is a topic that a lot of retailers don’t pay attention to. Here is a blog post that explains why it is relevant and...

How To Automate The Recruiting Of Tech Talent

Tony Paul

Feb 3, 20172 min read

How To Automate The Recruiting Of Tech Talent

Recruiting tech talent is a very tough job. Automating a major portion of the recruiting process can save HR teams ton of time and money....

3 ways web scraping can help you make product launch successful

Tony Paul

Jan 26, 20172 min read

3 ways web scraping can help you make product launch successful

You might have seen the video of iPhone product launch by Steve Jobs. It was one of the most successful launches ever. The iPhone 3G sold...

Free Web Scraping And Free Web Crawling Is A Myth My Friend- Period!

Jezeel MK

Jan 25, 20172 min read

Free Web Scraping And Free Web Crawling Is A Myth My Friend- Period!

You must have come across free web scraping tools or browser plugins. Have you ever thought how they are managing to give you these free...

Building an online fashion store – 4 things you must know

Tony Paul

Oct 17, 20162 min read

Building an online fashion store – 4 things you must know

Affiliate marketing contributes about 20% traffic of most online fashion brands and retailers. The great thing about affiliate marketing...

Beginner’s guide to Web Scraping with Python lxml

Tony Paul

Sep 7, 20166 min read

Beginner’s guide to Web Scraping with Python lxml

Web Scraping with Python is a popular subject around data science enthusiasts. Here is a piece of content aimed at beginners who want to...

Follow Amazon to grow your online retail business

Tony Paul

Aug 23, 20162 min read

Follow Amazon to grow your online retail business

Amazon with a $358 billion market cap is one of the most successful online retailers. Online retailing business has huge potential,...

How Xpath Plays Vital Role In Web Scraping

Tony Paul

Aug 8, 20163 min read

How Xpath Plays Vital Role In Web Scraping

XPath is a language for finding information in structured documents like XML or HTML. You can say that XPath is (sort of) SQL for XML or...

How we used a highly targeted B2B marketing campaign to generate 3 x more sales

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan

Apr 22, 20162 min read

How we used a highly targeted B2B marketing campaign to generate 3 x more sales

No company can run a successful marketing campaign without relevant marketing data. Most failed marketing campaigns have three things in...

Thoughts on Kimono labs acquisition and shutting down

Tony Paul

Feb 25, 20162 min read

Thoughts on Kimono labs acquisition and shutting down

Kimono labs, free web scraping tool used by 125k developers, data scientists and businesses, got acquired by Palantir. According to a...

How to scrape search results from search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan

Feb 7, 20162 min read

How to scrape search results from search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo

Search giants like Google, Yahoo and Bing made their empire on scraping others content. However, they don’t want you to scrape them. How...

Web Scraping Helps Real Estate Portals To Stay Ahead Of The Competitors

Tony Paul

Jan 20, 20162 min read

Web Scraping Helps Real Estate Portals To Stay Ahead Of The Competitors

Buying a home is one of the decisions of a lifetime and people don’t take it lightly. According to a survey conducted by SurveyMonkey –...

What web scraping can and can't do for you

Jezeel MK

Dec 31, 20155 min read

What web scraping can and can't do for you

In today's digital world, information is power. With vast amounts of data available on the internet, web scraping has emerged as a...

Market Research For Startups – A Data Driven Approach

Jezeel MK

Dec 16, 20153 min read

Market Research For Startups – A Data Driven Approach

When starting a technology company, understanding the needs of the market can be the difference between success and failure. The best way...

How to get early customers for your startup

Tony Paul

Nov 11, 20153 min read

How to get early customers for your startup

If you’re starting a company, chances are you build a product and then try to acquire customers. According to Marc Andreessen of VC firm...

Job scraping – How HR Industry Leverages Web Scraping for Better Hires

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan

Sep 10, 20152 min read

Job scraping – How HR Industry Leverages Web Scraping for Better Hires

The HR industry is undergoing big transformations. The core problem it solves, recruitment process still remains a problem. It is always...

Building an Event aggregator using web scraping

Jezeel MK

Aug 18, 20152 min read

Building an Event aggregator using web scraping

Meet Antonio, he came to New York from Italy. He is a foodie and music lover. It is Saturday night and he wants to find out what’s...

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