Data Scraping Using Selenium and Scrapy
Data Scraping is basically a process of extracting data from a website using some scripts or automation tool/software. In this demo, we have to scrape the review and information about the doctors from various medical field-oriented websites using Scrapy and Selenium tools.
Purpose of the Web scraping:
The list of things you can do with web scraping tools is almost endless. I have put some of the most common ones below.
Job Aggregator:
There are people actively looking for jobs and there are companies looking to hire suitable manpower. The problem is there are a ton of job boards with a lot of listings. What if you can scrape the job links and title, put it in a single place from where the job seeker can get the details.
Reviews are important for businesses to know better about their customer. This gives the better understand of their customers & improve their services.
Brand Monitoring:
In today’s highly competitive market, it’s a top priority to protect your online reputation. Whether you sell your products online and have a strict pricing policy that you need to enforce or just want to know how people perceive your products online, brand monitoring with web scraping can give you this kind of information.
Price monitoring is a very common yet useful technique that we can use to automate the process of checking prices on various websites.
