Battling incomplete information: Connect market demand with market supply by Google advertisement scraping and lead crawling

Posted on September 30, 2019 in Scraping, Crawling • Tagged with puppeteer, web scraping, headless chrome, marketing • 6 min read

In this blog post, it is explained how a lack of perfect information about the market allows the clever middleman to connect market supply with market demand by advertisement scrawping and lead crawling.


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Scraping 1 million keywords on the Google Search Engine

Posted on September 17, 2019 in Scraping • Tagged with puppeteer, web scraping, headless chrome, 1 million, queue, architecture • 5 min read

Scraping one million keywords is not a easy task. There are proxy problems, big data problems and reliability issues. In this blog post, the most valuable insights are shared.


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Scraping with puppeteer and headless chrome deployed to AWS Lambda

Posted on August 31, 2019 in Scraping • Tagged with puppeteer, web scraping, AWS lambda, headless chrome • 4 min read

In this blog post, we demonstrate how a web scraping function is deployed to the AWS cloud with puppeteer and headless chrome.


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Struktur: A completely new approach to web scraping

Posted on July 15, 2019 in Scraping • Tagged with puppeteer, web scraping, CSS selectors, XPath queries • 7 min read

I will shop an alternative approach to web scraping without using css selectors and XPath queries. We make use of the fact that most web pages visually render the information of interest in a coherent, structured way. This technique requires a remotely controllable web browser such as puppeteer, that is capable of rendering web pages visually.


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Breaking Google's Recaptcha

Posted on March 01, 2019 in Scraping • Tagged with puppeteer, recatpcha, scraping • 5 min read

A captcha is a mechanism to distinguish human users from automated programs (bot). There are many service providers in the Internet that have a major incentive to prevent bots from (ab)using their systems.


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Scraping search engines in 2019

Posted on February 04, 2019 in Scraping • Tagged with puppeteer, scraping, modern • 4 min read

Modern scraping now is mostly done with real browsers, configured to behave like real humans.


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