Portia Alternatives for Web Data Extraction
Portia was a visual tool that allowed users to crawl websites without having any programming knowledge. It was a hosted service but due to dwindling usage of visual scrapers, it has been taken down and is no longer in use today. So how did people use Portia when it was in existence? To use Portia, […]
Read MoreComprehensive Guide to Choosing a Proxy Service for your Web Scraper
Choosing a Proxy Service for your Web Scraper can be very tricky. It is quite well known that proxy management plays an important part in any web crawling assignment. So, for anyone looking to crawl and extract data with a relatively larger volume, proxy services have become an absolute must. Here we need to understand […]
Read MoreBoost your Amazon Affiliate Sales using Web Scraping
Amazon has grown bigger than ever, and its sales have crossed all boundaries. This is despite the fact that it does not advertise its services on television or billboards. However, much of the advertisement is done by affiliate websites who cash in on successful conversions. While the commission percentage of each sale is different across […]
Read MoreHow to Scrape Youtube Data using Python
YouTube has emerged as the clear winner when it comes to video sharing websites, and while it is said to be valued at more than $160 billion, the number of people who are making a living through the website is also massive. These content creators join the YouTube partnership program and by monetizing their content […]
Read MoreAlternative Data for ECommerce – PromptCloud
Let’s begin with what Alt data sources are. It stands for alternative data, and by alternative data, we mean non-traditional data sources such as the different forms of data obtained by scraping the World Wide Web. Alternative Data data can also be data bought from data aggregators or search engine websites, used to improve targeted […]
Read MoreeCommerce Data API for Affiliate Marketing
While all the talking about scraping data is well and good, using it in business processes poses the main challenge. That is the reason we want to discuss how organisations are using our scraping services to increase their sales, increase website traffic while optimising their costs. Here are 7 ways in which our customers are […]
Read MoreWeb Crawling for Data-Feed Driven Advertising – PromptCloud
What is data-feed driven advertising? Remember the time when you were checking out a laptop on Amazon and ended up seeing an advertisement for the same or similar laptops on Google, Facebook, and other sites that you visited? Let’s talk about something newer. Ever walked by a restaurant or bar and on opening your social […]
Read MoreScraping Insurance Coverage Details from Providers’ Websites
Anyone who has purchased an insurance policy online would probably know the difficulties of comparing them. This is because every company has varied plans and the information is provided in different formats on different websites. Going through each company’s website, finding the same data points and comparing them manually proves to be a difficult affair. […]
Read MoreWhat is the Impact of eCommerce on Brick and Mortar Stores?
Impact of eCommerce: The Growth Story of Online Sales Ever since the inception of eCommerce, the impact of e-commerce, online shopping has been slowly but steadily eating into the share of brick and mortar stores. As per the latest US Census Bureau data, in the last quarter of 2018, the eCommerce sector made up only […]
Read MoreTop Amazon Services for E-Commerce Players
The eCommerce sector is booming. What started with doorstep delivery of books, has now changed the way people shop. Today, everything from cakes and flowers to large appliances like washing machines is delivered right at your doorstep. Along with the top players like Amazon services and eBay, there are thousands of local players that operate […]
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