Originally published as https://www.octoparse.com/blog/how-to-crawl-data-from-a-website/?utm_source=sale2022&utm_medium=crawldatafromawebsite&utm_campaign=medium. Data crawling is used for data extraction and refers to collecting data from either the world wide web or from any document or file. The need for web data crawling has been on the rise in the past few years. The data crawled can be used…

Originally published as https://www.octoparse.com/blog/top-5-social-media-scraping-tools-for-2021/?utm_source=sale2022&utm_medium=socialmediascrapingtools&utm_campaign=medium. A social media scraper often refers to an automatic web scraping tool that extracts data from social media channels. They not only include social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn…etc., but also include blogs, wikis, and news sites. …

Originally published as https://www.octoparse.com/blog/bulk-download-images-from-links-top-5-bulk-image-downloaders/?utm_source=sale2022&utm_medium=top5imagedownloaders&utm_campaign=medium. How can you bulk download images from links for free? To download the image for the link, you may want to look into “Bulk Image Downloaders”. Inspired by the inquiries received, I decided to make a “top 5 bulk image downloader” list for you. …

Originally published as https://www.octoparse.com/blog/top-30-free-web-scraping-software/?utm_source=sale2022&utm_medium=top30freewebscrapingsoftware&utm_campaign=medium. Web Scraping & Web Scraping Software If you are a total newbie in this area, you can find more sources about web scraping at the end of this blog. Simply put, web scraping (also termed web data extraction, screen scraping, or web harvesting) is a technique of extracting data from websites. …

Originally published as https://www.octoparse.com/blog/simple-web-scraping-using-google-sheets/?utm_source=sale2022&utm_medium=webscrapinggooglesheets&utm_campaign=medium. Can you web scrape in Google Sheets? You may also have the same question as Google sheets almost become one of the most popular cloud-based tools. Actually, Google sheets can be regarded as a basic web scraper. You can use a special formula to extract data…

Originally published as https://www.octoparse.com/blog/best-email-scraping-tools-for-sales-prospecting-in-2019/?utm_source=sale2022&utm_medium=bestemailscrapingtools&utm_campaign=medium. Why You Should Use an Email Scraping Tool We all know how hard it is to build an email sales list from scratch, especially for small companies. There left no options due to limited resources. In fact, many companies even buy preset profiled lists from a third party and send identical mass emails. It…

Originally published as https://www.octoparse.com/blog/5-things-you-need-to-know-before-scraping-data-from-facebook/?utm_source=sale2022&utm_medium=5thingscrapingfb&utm_campaign=medium 1. Actually, Facebook disallows any scraper, according to its robots.txt file When planning to scrape a website, you should always check its robots.txt first. Robots.txt is a file used by websites to let “bots” know if or how the site should be scrapped or crawled and indexed. You could access the file by adding “/robots.txt” …

Originally published as https://www.octoparse.com/blog/free-online-web-crawler-tool/?utm_source=sale2022&utm_medium=freeonlinewebcrawlertools&utm_campaign=medium The ever-growing demand for big data is driving more and more people to dive into the ocean of data. Web crawling plays an important role in crawling the web pages that are ready to be indexed. …

Originally published as https://www.octoparse.com/blog/top-10-most-scraped-websites/?utm_source=sale2022&utm_medium=top10mostscrapedweb&utm_campaign=medium Introduction Web scraping is the best data-collection method if you are looking to grab data on web pages. …