After years of web scraping and working with people who do data collection, data harvesting, data indexing, data aggregation, web crawling, screen scraping, or whatever you want to call it, I wanted to put together a very basic list of ideas on how anyone can profit from the info that’s already out there.
First: What’s scraping? My definition is basic: scraping is intelligently, automatically taking content from somewhere, generally structured content, with the intention of reproducing it or examining it for trends or valuable information.
Second: Why scraping?
Because data is valuable. Knowledge is power. Yadayada. You know all this.
What you might not know: scraping is often free. So, we're talking about free value. So here's what this guide is going to answer, very basically and quickly to get your mind working:
- Where to get the data
- What to do with it
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