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A blog for people & companies looking to make a big business impact with data acquired using web scraping and web crawling. Learn the best practices, business use cases, legality, and how you can do your job better with data.
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Why Every Amazon Seller Must Scrape Their Competitor’s Reviews
Monitoring your product’s reviews is incredibly useful to assess customer satisfaction and identifying areas of improvement.
Ashmi Subair
Mar 1111 min read
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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....
Thasni M A
May 5, 202313 min read
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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...
Tony Paul
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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...
Tony Paul
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It’s the Season to Get Holiday Pricing Right!
To say a lot has changed this year would be an understatement. The pandemic has globally affected consumer spending across all income...
Fiona Mathews
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3 Ways Popular Price Comparison Websites Gather Data
A few years back, a typical online buyer looking to buy apparel or an electronic gadget would scour the web to compare prices from...
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Dec 3, 20204 min read
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5 Major Challenges That Make Amazon Data Scraping Painful
Amazon has been on the cutting edge of collecting, storing, and analyzing a large amount of data. Be it customer data, product...
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Oct 27, 20206 min read
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How To Scrape Amazon Data Using Python Scrapy
With a large number of companies providing products, price, review, and other forms of monitoring solutions for Amazon, scraping Amazon...
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Oct 21, 20206 min read
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The Retailer’s Guide to Price Optimization Solutions to Increase Profits
Pricing is actually very simple. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product. ~ Ron Johnson, former...
Fiona Mathews
Sep 8, 20206 min read
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How to Hit a Home Run as an Amazon Seller
Amazon is a global platform that harbors buyers and sellers, both. Nowadays, its online presence defines a business. Hence, all merchants...
Sakshi Ragini
Jan 29, 20207 min read
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FLASH SALES: How Web Scraping Helps Businesses Win Big
What differentiates a successful business from a mediocre performing business? We say it is their sales and marketing strategy. A...
Sakshi Ragini
Nov 16, 20199 min read
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Start an Online Fashion Store in 7 Simple Steps – Part 2
If you’re planning to start a business, more specifically an ecommerce venture, why not start an online fashion store? And since you’ve...
Amrin Kareem
Oct 31, 20195 min read
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Start an Online Fashion Store in 7 Simple Steps – Part 1
The world is becoming fashion-savvier day by day. People are more concerned about how closely they resemble their on-screen idols. The...
Amrin Kareem
Oct 11, 20196 min read
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12 Essential Key Metrics That E-commerce Businesses Must Track
Online retail or e-commerce has become a new playing arena for many companies. A lot of major e-commerce sites monitor some key...
Srishti Saha
Jul 2, 20199 min read
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How can Web Scraping Social Media data help E-commerce Owners
E-commerce is a significant internet industry, which also makes one of the most competitive ones. Companies are looking to maximise their...
Harshit Agrawal
Jan 2, 20196 min read
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The Economy of the Web Scraping Industry
The web scraping industry is penetrating every other industrial vertical. With the large volumes of data available for multiple purposes,...
Srishti Saha
Dec 24, 20186 min read
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How Web Scraping Can Optimize Online Merchandising
Today’s online shoppers don’t only buy products, but they also buy experiences. How quickly does the screen load, how seamless are the...
Anmol Chawla
Oct 13, 20186 min read
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How to Use Predictive Analytics to Prevent Customer Problems Before they Arise
Prevention is better than cure. An important point to consider for a successful business is forecasting problems before they arise and...
Rupal Mishra
Aug 6, 20185 min read
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How Web Scraping can be Used to Increase Dropshipping Sales
Imagine getting an extremely relevant and vital piece of information, for as little as $3.33 per hour. How appealing it sounds? One of...
Rupal Mishra
Jul 26, 20186 min read
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Chatbots for Retail: How retailers are using chatbots to boost customer engagement
In present age, technology is developing at a pace faster than our ability to keep up with it. With technologies like embedded analytics...
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Jun 26, 20186 min read
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Walmart Acquires Flipkart: Impact on the Retail Industry and Consumers
Earlier last week, the Indian retail scenario saw a major transformation with an acquisition that involved one of the biggest players in...
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
May 20, 20183 min read
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How Web Scraping Can be used to Automate Dropshipping
Over the past two decades, the internet has evolved from a geek’s work to a common man’s daily functioning tool for pretty much...
Tony Paul
May 9, 20184 min read
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Online vs In-Store Shopping: How Can Retailers Close the Gap Between Online & In-Store Shopping
In today’s world, the word “shopping” doesn’t only mean the purchase of a product. Rather, it’s an entire customer experience. Right from...
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Apr 6, 20184 min read
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How 2018 will Usher in the Next Disruption in Online Shopping
Humans are a creature of habit. We love our habits, but we also like them challenged. Whenever the market presents a new toy for the...
Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
Apr 4, 20183 min read
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