# Web Data Scraping - Trends, Insights, Reports | PromptCloud

## [How Apple Could’ve Used Web Crawling for Counterfeit Detection on Amazon](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/apple-counterfeit-amazon-web-crawling/)

Could Apple have Identified Counterfeit Products by Web Crawling Amazon? Well, two of the biggest names in tech were recently in news for something they both weren’t happy about. Apple figured out that most of the chargers and lightning cables being sold on Amazon as genuine Apple accessories were in fact counterfeit products. The irony […]

## [How to Use Web Crawling to Detect Fraud](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/web-crawling-to-detect-fraud/)

Web crawling and scraping solutions can often be misconstrued in negative light, in absence of legal and technological information in this field. Contrary to unpopular belief, data scraping technique deploys automated bots to visit and extract data from the web, and  is gaining significant importance. Web crawling, just like any other technology, can be used […]

## [Employee Spotlight – Selvam](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/employee-spotlight-selvam/)

Meet Selvam Vasu, the man behind the stage ensuring a smooth run for our servers and infrastructure. Being the devops-guru, he makes sure nothing ever breaks, and in case something does, Selvam is always ready to work his magic and fix it within no time. He believes that a web server is similar to the […]

## [Best Brand Monitoring Tools for Social Media](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/twitter-brand-monitoring-tools/)

To claim success in today’s challenging market conditions, it is crucial to understand your prospects, customers, and industry. Using social media to promote and monitor your brand helps you discover new opportunities, uncover pain points, and take revenue-enhancing business decisions. Marketers are extensively using social media channels for this purpose. Result, many brand monitoring tools […]

## [How IoT Devices Caused one of the Biggest DDoS Attacks](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/how-iot-devices-caused-biggest-ddos-attacks/)

Millions of surfers couldn’t access some of the most popular websites on the web on Friday, October 21st after hackers bombarded them with bogus traffic. DDoS attacks such as this one are not a new thing, but the extent of damage caused this time makes this one of the major DDoS attacks we’ve seen in […]

## [Promptcloud’s Review of Tableau – A Data Visualisation Tool](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/tableau-review-data-visualisation-tool/)

Tableau’s new BI platform has been widely hailed as one of the best self-service BI platforms out there. With a slew of features under its belt, the tool has been vital for BI and Big Data visualisation for companies across scale and industry verticals. The powerful tool lets you do the transition from raw data […]

## [Enhancing the Value of Data Scientists in the Big Data Ecosystem](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/enhancing-value-data-scientists-big-data-ecosystem/)

The immense reach and influence of Big Data over almost all the industry verticals is not unknown. With Big Data Ecosystem, seemingly massive and complex chain of communication, comments, and brand mentions is analyzed at a granular level. The purpose of this exercise is to unlock insights that may have hitherto remained hidden from the […]

## [How Web Scraping Affects your Revenue Growth](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/web-scraping-affects-revenue-growth/)

Web scraping is an indispensable resource when it comes to gaining an edge in the competition with the help of business intelligence. As more and more data gets created on the world wide web, the complexity of extracting it intensifies. Web scraping is a technology that demands an extensive tech stack, high end resources and […]

## [Web Scraping with Python](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/web-scraping-python-guide/)

In the Big Data world, Web Scraping or Data extraction services are the primary requisites for Big Data Analytics. Pulling up data from the web has become almost inevitable for companies to stay in business. Next question that comes up is how to go about web scraping as a beginner. Web scraping refers to the […]

## [Bot Detection Agencies- A FUD?](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/why-bot-detection-agencies-fud/)

Bots aka web crawling spiders make up about 40% of the traffic on the internet. They traverse through pages on the web looking for data they were programmed to find. If you run a website, you would know that a good share of your traffic comes from bots. Using bots to find and fetch information […]