Web Scraping 101

This post is for the business-minded executive looking for a non-technical summary of what you’re missing out on when it comes to web scraping. We’ll look at what web scraping can achieve, how web scraping can help your business, and how an IP rotation service like Ion gives users an advantage.

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Ion: More than a Proxy

You have decided to use a proxy in order to collect data on your competitors anonymously. Great! A proxy will provide a buffer between you and the requests you make to your target website. You are taking steps in the right direction.

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Anonymous Competitive Intelligence

Let’s face it, there are many things you can do and practices you can follow to help avoid identifying yourself during online activities. These include clearing cookies, using a private browser window, as well as using a proxy for both automated collection of big data and simple manual online browsing.

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Avoiding Web Scraping Roadblocks

Data harnesses amazing power, which is why there is so much attention on how businesses can make the most of the structured and unstructured data they collect. The quality and completeness of that data play a key role in leveraging its potential.

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What is Tor?

Tor was originally built by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Onion Routing Program with support from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). Currently distributed as an open source project run by the nonprofit Torproject.org, it is a popular non-attribution system.

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VPN Router for Anonymous Research

Online monitoring and detection is becoming increasingly sophisticated. All traffic has the potential to be tracked, logged and analyzed, which can result in persistent blocking, profiling and/or spoofing.

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Scrape a Website

In this document we are going to cover an approach to building these tools that we have found effective, and also demonstrate integrating an automated data collection tool with our solutions for anonymous research.

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Crawl Without Getting Blocked

There are quite a few reasons to have automated systems, like spiders, crawlers and bots, visit websites. Automated system visits allow search engines to index pages, researchers to look up trends, and marketing firms to conduct competitive analyses.

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