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As a newbie, I built a web crawler and successfully extracted 20k data from the Amazon Careers website. Want to know how to make a web crawler and create a database that eventually turns into your asset at no cost? This article will share with you the different ways including coding and no-coding ways step by step.
What Is A Web Crawler
A web crawler is an internet bot that indexes the content of websites (read the detailed definition on Wikipedia). It can automatically extract target information and data from websites and export data into structured formats (list/table/database). Here is a video that explains the web crawler and the difference between web crawlers and web scrapers.
You may be curious about is web crawler legal or not, well, it depends. But generally speaking, it’s totally legal in most countries to crawl public data on a website.
Why Do You Need A Web Crawler
Imagine a world without Google Search. How long do you think it will take to get a recipe for chicken nuggets from the Internet? There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being…
