Custom Crawler Development

Web crawlers are just a few lines of code. These programs or code function as a bot on the internet. Our custom web crawlers can help you track down your website problems, whether you need them crawled during development, staging, or live. Data extraction from various websites and storage in databases can be achieved with custom crawlers developed for each client. We have developed tons of crawlers to extract data from a variety of sites. The first step is to understand the site, the type of access restrictions, the data to be extracted, the time estimate and the database design that must be used. Our customized libraries are then used to crawl the target sites in a distributed manner using the shortest turnaround time. Our crawling services have provided publically available data from websites like government websites, Aggregators, Competitors, and relevant statistics/surveys/reports/docs made available behind forms and other restrictions.

What is Web Crawling?

The process of web scraping, also called web crawling or web spidering, is when you use the computer to go out and collect information from a website, so that you can retrieve a lot of data more quickly than if you were doing the work manually. It is possible to scrape the web using a number of different tools and techniques, but in general, a scraper downloads webpages, extracts data, and saves it.

Types of Web Crawler

The web crawlers are classified into multiple types based on the applications they are used for. Now let’s examine each of these types in greater detail.

1. Crawler For General-Purpose Websites

In general, web crawlers gather as many pages as possible from several URLs to crawl large amounts of data and information. You will need a fast internet connection and lots of storage space to run a general purpose web crawler.

• Crawler With A Specific Focus

Focused Web crawlers are distinguished by a focused search criterion. Focused crawlers crawl pages related to pre-defined topics, unlike general-purpose crawlers that crawl all pages and URLs on a site. For example, product information pages are crawled while general-purpose crawlers index all the pages on a site. This crawler operates with smaller storage and slower internet speeds, allowing it to run with smaller storage and slower internet speeds. Most search engines use this type of web crawler, including Google, Yahoo, and Baidu.

• Web Crawler That Crawls Incrementally

Imagine you want to automatically update your website’s content on a continuous basis. One process is to crawl the entire site manually, which comes with significant overhead and makes it unavailable for other tasks. The alternative is to use an incremental crawler that only looks at new URLs that have been added since your last crawl. The incremental web crawler lets you save time and storage space by only looking for new, updated items while ignoring that which has not changed.

• The Deep Web Crawler

Most pages on the internet can be divided into Surface Web and Deep Web, terms that designate web pages that can be indexed with a traditional search engine. It basically consists of a static page that can be reached by hyperlink. Web pages in the Dark Web contain content that cannot be obtained through static links. Because of this, these webpages are hidden behind the search form. A deep web crawler helps us access content from these invisible websites by submitting keywords associated with this information.

Web Scraping: How Can It Be Used?

There are many ways to use web scraping, but the most common is to collect information about other companies. We have seen businesses use web scraping to do the following:

• Keeping an eye on the prices of your competitors’ products.
• Monitoring employee information published on sites like Glassdoor.
• Check out what other companies are hiring.
• Keep track of new market expansions by companies.
• Develop marketing lists for companies.
• B2B marketing campaigns can be optimized by analyzing companies automatically.
• The process of optimizing your own business operations.

Web scraping: What Is It and How Does It Work?

Web scraping generally requires three steps: download, parse, and store. First, the web scraper needs to download the webpage (or the other data) from the website. There are a number of tools that can be used for this, including the cURL library, which is quite popular. The web scraper must also extract the desired information from the pages it downloads. A web crawler may not always need to do this (for example, if it is crawling images), but for the most part, it requires that it extract what it wants from the data it has downloaded. The web crawler also needs to store the data it has collected. From databases to files and spreadsheets, there are many ways to store information.

Web Crawlers: How Are They Developed?

Our web crawlers are built in the following pattern:

• Determine the project requirements and data needed
• Identify the location of the desired data at the target site
• Create a program that downloads the desired webpage(s) or data
• Create a program that extracts the desired information from the downloaded pages
• Data should be stored as desired
• Provide the resulting data in the format you require

The requirements for the project and what data is being collected will determine what tools and techniques are needed. For example, in many cases, a general purpose crawling tool with a custom extraction system will provide the most robust solution. There are cases in which a custom tool is required for downloading. Depending on the site, some best practices include: crawling and extracting specific data at certain intervals to save time and resources, or making use of APIs (Application Programming Interface) to download content housed on other websites that have already exhausted all their file sizes. Scraping data will also depend on the size of the data, type of content requested, and what needs to be processed with the data. In most beginner cases, simple Python or PHP scripts will extract all of the required information. As the complexity gets more advanced, a more complex program with custom coding is needed. Depending on your needs, you can choose to store the results in a spreadsheet, have the data saved on a database with direct download ability, or you can quickly receive an email of your results. If you don’t know what works for your application, you will have to decide what does.

Problem-Solving Custom Crawlers

Our custom web crawlers can help you track down your website problems, whether you need them crawled during development, staging, or live.  Moreover, you can use custom crawlers to identify broken links (404s), server errors, and SEO gaps, which are important for maximizing your ROI. They can also locate redirect loops during site migrations. A custom crawler is designed according to your needs, and a scalable crawl limit is set by you.

Crawlers That Are Custom-Built Offer More Capabilities Than Those That Are Available Out Of The Box

Price Comparison: To offer the best price, check competitor websites with automated bots.

Website Content Aggregator: News feeds, events, social data, & job information can be aggregated with Custom Content Crawlers.

SEO Information: Determine a better SEO strategy by gathering information about your website and your competitors’ websites.

Product Catalog Builder: Crawlers can be used to aggregate product information from supplier websites.

Development Of Website Crawlers

Among the crawlers we have built in the past are as following:

• Yellow Pages
• Avvo
• Michigan Professional Licenses
• Michigan Companies Filings
• Texas Companies Filings
• California Bar Association
• Georgia Bar Association and Many More.

The Web Spider – What Is It?

Web spiders follow links between pages, downloading and parsing each one along the way. They crawl the internet “web” composed of links, hence their name. Many tools will allow you to download entire sites, based on their complexity and efficiency, using a variety of search engine spiders such as Google’s GoogleBot and Bing’s BingBot. A number of tools are available to download entire sites, with varying degrees of complexity and efficiency; however, more advanced spiders require more complex coding.

What Are The Ways In Which A Web Scraper Can Send Me Data?

When you have a well-built web scraper, you can send your data the way that is most convenient for you. A well-designed scraper can provide you with the data you need in whatever format you need, whether it’s in a spreadsheet (CSV, XSLX, or anything else), a database MySQL, or in compressed or uncompressed files.

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