Scraping Chinese or Japanese Language Text Web Pages

Extract data from a Chinese or Japanese website
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Challenges in scraping Chinese and Japanese text
There are several factors that make extracting Chinese and Japanese text a challenging project. Here are the challenges that we have overcome:
Language barrier: Both Japanese and Chinese languages can be extremely difficult to interpret for non-natives and understanding the various data points on the website can pose a significant challenge. While Google Translate can aid in translating the complete webpage to English, the translation process can still hinder the speed and efficiency. Using a translation service is essential to setting up a crawler to crawl Chinese and Japanese text, which will definitely take more time.
Inconsistencies in encoding: Most websites use the UTF-8 encoding and this includes Chinese and Japanese sites too. However, we have encountered some cases where the website had characters that weren’t part of the declared encoding. While this isn’t a common scenario, such cases would require identification of the correct encoding and post processing, if necessary.
Geo-blocking: Some websites have geo-blocking enabled to allow only visitors from the home country. This will restriction might demand using a proxy service to crawl the site if you are scraping the site from a different geolocation.
Forget the challenges in scraping Chinese or Japanese text
If you are looking to crawl Japanese or Chinese text from websites, you can reach out to us with your requirements.