30 Ways to Grow Your Business with Web Scraping

  Web scraping surely brings advantages to us. It is speedy, cost-effective, and can collect data from websites with an accuracy of over 90%. It frees you from endless copy-and-paste into messy layout documents. However, something may be overlooked. There are some limitations and even risks lurking behind web scraping.   Click to read: What is web scraping and what is it used for? Which is the best way to scrape web data? What are the limitations of web scraping tools? Closing thoughts   · What is web scraping and what is it used for? For those who are not familiar with web scraping, let me explain.  Web scraping is a technique used to extract information from websites at a rapid speed. The data scraped down and saved to the local will be accessible anytime.  It works as one of the first steps in data analysis, data visualization and data mining as it collects data from many  sources. Getting data prepared is the prerequisite for further visualization ...

  Why job data? Throughout years of working in the  web scraping  industry and talking to users from all over the world, job data stands out as being one of the most sought after information on the web. I was honestly a bit overwhelmed until I came across  Gallup's 2017 State of the American Workplace report  which stated that  51% currently employed adults are searching for new jobs or looking for new work opportunities and 58% job seekers look for jobs online,  in another word, this market is huge .  At the same time, I was also surprised to find out there are so many ways to utilize job data, just to name a few:   Fueling job aggregator sites with fresh job data. Collecting data for analyzing job trends and the labor market. Tracking competitors' open positions, compensations, benefits plan to get yourself a leg up the competition. Finding leads by pitching your service to companies that are hiring for th...