No Code Data Scrapper — My Learning: Chrome Extensions
Why we need Data Scrappers or Extraction Tools?
These tools assist businesses in gathering useful data about customer preferences, preferred locations, competing strategies, etc. Setting more competitive rates is made feasible by gathering pricing data.
Are They Legal? :
It is acceptable to scrape data as long as it is for fair use and is in the public domain, but it is best to exercise extra caution when doing so if the data pertains to someone else’s personal information because there may be some awareness of this.
What is data scrapping:
In simpler terms, it is a method of converting useable data from websites into data that can be customized to suit a user’s needs.
How to Scrap Data?
There are many ways to pull information from websites like by utilizing a programming language or by the tools at hand (for noncoders like me:-P)
So, in this post, I’ll discuss the easy tools and data scraping results I made while learning about this subject. These are all web-based tools, and their proper and moral usage is what is at concern.
All Tools I’m mentioning here are for data mining are available as Chrome extensions
Scope of Experiment:
For the purposes of the experiment, I was tasked with determining the average price at which people in the India region were selling iPhones and posting ads on classified websites.
What I need:
1. A publicly available classified website, where prices and location were mentioned
2. A Web scrapper tool i.e I’m using Simplescraper here
Results :
I was able to extract a data table, figure 1, after using the tools numerous times and learning how to use them. I then converted figure 1 to Excel.
2. The only process left after pasting the data into Excel was to determine the average price at which the iPhone was selling. I did this by converting the rupee sign to the currency price.
3.To get to a conclusion, I repeated the experiment using several scrapers and discovered that they are all effective scraping tools. Some may be more technical than others, but ultimately, it is up to you who you choose and for what purpose.
I evaluated my own performance using benchmarks like usability, login need, free or paid, and results provided. The chart below will help you quickly grasp how wonderful it is for you; the higher the number, the better the situation in each field.
Links for your benefits :
1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-data-scraper/ofaokhiedipichpaobibbnahnkdoiiah
2. Data Scraper — Easy Web Scraping — Chrome Web Store (google.com)
3. Web Scraper — Free Web Scraping — Chrome Web Store (google.com)
4. Simplescraper — a fast and free web scraper — Chrome Web Store (google.com)
5. AnyPicker — A.I. powered No Code Web Scraper — Chrome Web Store (google.com)
I sincerely hope you appreciated the reading and my conclusions. If you have any recommendations or ideas to add, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me. until then, happy studying.
Some Bonus References :
How To Use Google Sheets For Web Scraping & Campaign Building
Scrape Website Data to Google SheetsLeverage Chrome Dev Tools for Dynamic Web Scraping | by Aaron S | Towards Data Science
Easy data scraping with Google Apps Script in 5 minutes ~ kutil.org
Scrape Website Data to Google Sheets — YouTube
How can I extract web data from Google Chrome browser? — Techyv.com