Interested in obtaining data from websites, crawling URL lists, and automating marketing workflows? Here are some scraping APIs to check out.
APIs for Web Scraping & Data Extraction
You can save a great deal of time by using web scraping. Data such as page rankings, keywords and content from both your competitors’ and your own/client’s sites can be retrieved more quickly with this tool.
You can then do something that you cannot automate: analyze all the information once you have gathered it (aka, scraping it together).
Check which keywords drive traffic to a website, what content is getting the most backlinks, what pages users engage with, and so on.
The internet makes it easy to find Web scraping API free. The following APIs and documentation are available for web scraping:
Apify
Using just a few lines of JavaScript, Apify provides an API for crawling web pages and extracting structured data from them.
A user interface is provided, or the API can be used to run it programmatically. Each extracted dataset is stored in a dataset, which can be exported in a variety of formats, such as JSON, XML, or CSV.
Parse Hub
It is a free tool that allows you to easily scrape websites for data and turn them into spreadsheets or APIs.
Scraping data from multiple websites is possible. Those results can be downloaded through JSON, Excel or API based on the data collected by their servers.
Scraper API
With Scraper API, you can scrape virtually any page with just a single API call and it handles proxy rotation, browsers, and CAPTCHAs.
Additionally, you receive 1000 free API calls. That’s nice.
Octoparse
In just a few clicks, Octoparse lets you automate the extraction of data from websites.
You can schedule tasks at specific times, and it can cope with all types of websites (infinite scrolling, logins, drop-downs, AJAX, etc.).
Scraping Bee
The Scrapping Bee scraping API handles headless browsing by rotating proxies.
The software can extract data from web pages, scrape search engine results pages, and extract contact information.
A quick aside: What is web scraping and is it legal?
There are some things you should know before diving in and starting to scrape left, right, and center.
Web scraping is the process of collecting information from the internet and websites.
Furthermore, sites can scrape information from publicly accessible data in the same way, in order to improve user experience.
Visitors to a site and those who open links automatically accept the privacy policies of that site – and if you pay attention to the information presented, you’ll see that data collection (including cookies) is first mentioned.
Do you think web scraping is legal?
Yes, provided it’s done ethically.
Scraping the web is legal, provided the information gathered doesn’t compromise the user (and commonly doesn’t identify the user). If you use the gathered information to improve user experience, rather than spam or sell something, you will be fine.
Every website collects some kind of data. Another method of data collection is web scraping.
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