What Expedia’s Listings Reveal About Your Competitor’s Pricing Strategy
**TL;DR** Expedia isn’t just about prices. If you look closely at hotel listings, you can start to see patterns in the rooms they promote first, the extras they mention, how often certain offers appear, and when availability shifts. Those little changes can tell you a lot about how another hotel is thinking about its prices. […]
Read MoreWhy “Scraping Google” Isn’t the Data Strategy You Think It Is
Why So Many Startups Start with “Scraping Google” It’s common for startups and early-stage businesses to think about scraping Google when they first explore large-scale data collection. On the surface, it makes sense. Search engines show all kinds of results, links to prices, articles, job listings, product reviews, and more. That volume gives the impression […]
Read MoreWhat a Custom Web Scraping Service Provider Does that an Off-The-Shelf Scraper Tool Can’t
**TL;DR** If all you need is to scrape a few pages once or twice, those plug-and-play scraper tools are usually fine. They get the job done… until they don’t. But after a while, things break. Maybe the site changes. Maybe the tool just starts acting weird. Suddenly, what was supposed to save time turns into […]
Read MoreScraping Homes.com for Real Estate Data: Opportunities, Challenges & Solutions
**TL;DR** A lot of people in real estate talk about Zillow and Redfin when it comes to data, but Homes.com has quietly become a pretty useful source, too. There’s a ton of property info on the site, prices, photos, agent details, neighbourhoods, you name it. Getting that data in a usable format, though, isn’t always […]
Read MoreImportance of Ethical Data Collection
**TL;DR** Ethical data collection is not a checklist item. It is the foundation of trustworthy, long-term data operations. When your organization collects or scrapes data, ethics determines whether the dataset becomes a strategic asset or a legal liability. Responsible scraping means collecting only what is needed, respecting consent, maintaining transparency, and protecting stored information. It […]
Read MoreHow a Travel App Used Web Scraping Services to Monitor 500+ Airline and Hotel Sites Daily
**TL;DR** One travel app was growing fast, but they started hitting a wall. They were trying to keep track of flight times, hotel prices, and availability from hundreds of different websites, more than 500. The problem? Things were changing way too often. By the time they updated their listings, the prices or availability had already […]
Read MoreThe Best Web Scraping Companies for Aggregating Financial News Across Global Sites
Why Aggregating Financial News Is So Difficult Without Web Scraping Image Source: iwebdatascraping Let’s say you’re a data analyst or managing investments, and your job depends on staying current with what’s happening in the markets. The trouble is, financial news doesn’t arrive in one neat stream. It comes from all over: press releases, company filings, […]
Read MoreHow AI Model Performance Improved by 40% After Switching to a Custom Web Scraping Service Provider
**TL;DR** This case study highlights how an AI-driven company improved its model performance by 40% after switching from generic data feeds to a specialized web scraping services provider. The move allowed access to high-quality, real-time, domain-specific training data tailored for their needs. This resulted in better prediction accuracy, faster deployment cycles, and improved business outcomes. […]
Read MoreWhy Data Security & Compliance Should Be Your Top Priority While Scraping The Web
**TL;DR** Web scraping isn’t new. It’s everywhere now, from tracking competitors to analyzing markets. But there’s one thing too many teams brush past: security. Or worse, compliance. Think about it. You’re pulling data from sources you don’t own. Maybe even personal data. If that data leaks? If what you pulled wasn’t meant to be collected, […]
Read MoreWeekly Housing Market Data: A Guide to Tracking US Housing Trends
**TL;DR** The U.S. housing market is always shifting, sometimes slowly, other times all at once. If you’re working in real estate or doing some kind of financial research, you probably know the pain of relying on outdated data. Weekly housing reports, like the ones Redfin and Zillow put out, are a better bet. They give […]
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