Chris Prosser

The Secret Weapon Powering SaaS Success: APIs + Web Scraping

Technically, Application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. The API is the interface can be asked by like travel service to get information from airline system over the internet to book seats. It also takes the airlines response to a request and deliver it right back to the online travel service which then shows it to you.

Maximize Ecommerce Revenue with Data-Driven Pricing: Advanced Web Scraping Strategies

it is important to monitor the price in an hourly or daily basis. Octoparse is a great free tool for you to scrape data from any e-commerce websites including Amazon, eBay, Costco, B&H Photo, Frys and many more. You can schedule a scraping task to achieve real-time price monitoring. Last but not least, these strategies are not mutually exclusive. It works best when you apply these strategies altogether.

Best Data Extraction Tool: An In-Depth Review of Octoparse Web Crawler

Octoparse is an extremely powerful tool that has optimized and pushed our data scraping efforts to the next level. I would recommend this service to anyone. The price for the value provides a large return on the investment. For the free version, which works great, you can run at least 10 tasks at a time. However, these tasks are ran simultaneously in the background of the computer application. In my opinion buying any of the plans that allow you to use the cloud interface is very helpful and provides a good bit of flexibility. You can close out of the application and know that Octoparse is running on a server somewhere.

7 Must-See TED Talks on Big Data: Insights from Web Scraping and IP Proxy Research

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a nonprofit global community that has been committed to the spread of creative ideas in the form of short but powerful talks since 1984. The talks cover all kinds of topics from science to business to global issues in more than 100 languages as TED welcomes people from every discipline and culture.

TED site rolls out videos all the time and there are more than 2500 videos now. If you are pressed for time, here are 7 must see TED talks about big data that every data science fans should watch for their insights into the future of big data. These 7 talks cover how we make use of big data from machine learning to healthcare to astronomy. These talks make fascinating watching for anyone curious about where big data might take us.