Today, the world is all about being dynamic. Change is now the only constant. With technology and communications through data, the world has not only become dynamic but is also robust. With so much of data floating around, businesses and individuals are informed alike. The wall of information asymmetry is slowly crumbling. Businesses today, take a considerable quantum of decisions based on data and analytics of numerable data sets. Large data sets lead to a heavier and more efficient form of .........

The amount of data being transmitted and shared over the internet is outstanding. Interestingly, a large chunk of the trillion-ton data ocean is not created by large corporations, but by individuals across the globe. It would be interesting to look at the statistics –

• The number of tweets have increased by almost over 25% since 2013 to over 3.5 lakh tweets every minute.
• From the period between 2013 to 2016, the number of posts shared over facebook has increa.........

Quite often many of us are so engrossed in achieving the goal that we forget about being fair in the means. Web scraping as a service is almost indispensable especially to organisations operating in a data sensitive organization. Succumbing to the pressure of being on top of the data game takes such a toll that the lines between ethical web scraping and intrusive web scraping is almost blurred. Web scraping and data extraction as services may be one of the most profitable value propositions. .........

Web scraping is also commonly referred to by various other nomenclatures such as screen scraping, web harvesting, data extraction and similar more. Web scraping is nothing but a process which lets a user extract vast data sets from the world wide web. This data is then stored into the user’s computer in a consumable and accessible format.

Now, you may wonder that if the source of this data set is the world wide web, then anybody with an internet connection can anyways access t.........

Web crawling and web scraping are often used interchangeably, but is that really the case? Maybe not.

There’s a fine line of distinction between the two concepts. To put things simply, a typical crawling function includes docking onto a webpage and tracking the relevant links while scanning through the actual text and subsequently proceeds to the next webpage and so on.

On the flipside, web scraping refers to parsing through content on a webpage and collecting partic.........