Ran Geva
CEO
Article’s publication date extractor – an overview
A few days ago I’ve released an open source Python module that provides you with a simple way to extract...
Ever imagined how "Big Data" looks like?
We have created a fun little experiment, letting you navigate in a 3D universe of real data from the open web. The...
30-Days of Historical Data Access for Webz.io Now Available
I’m very happy to let you know about the launch of our extended access to 30-days of historical data from Webz.io,...
Dead simple {for devs} python crawler (script) for extracting structured data from any website into CSV
On my previous post I wrote about a very basic web crawler I wrote, that can randomly scour the web and...
Tiny basic multi-threaded web crawler in Python
If you need a simple web crawler that will scour the web for a while to download random site’s content – this code...
How we quadrupled the performance of Elasticsearch
Well, that’s a misleading title. We actually quadrupled the performance of our brand monitoring alert system that uses Elasticsearch’s Percolator,...
Webz.io Tip: Search for top performing (viral) posts
Here at Webz, our crawlers download millions of posts a day from millions of sources. When searching for web data...
Building a Better Search Query
Many factors can affect streaming data relevancy. When the data you consume isn’t ordered by relevancy, rather by the time...
Webz.io Tips & Tricks: Content Marketing & SEO
I would like to share with you 2 simple tips about how to leverage Webz.io to promote your website, product...
Webz.io Tips & Tricks: Search for Reviews
Are you looking to focus your data search specifically on consumer generated reviews? Here are a couple of simple Webz.io...
Vertical Aggregation and Pattern Matching Crawlers
After bashing various crawling techniques, I would like to describe the technique we use here, at Webz.io, a technology that...
Crawling Horrors – Computer Vision Crawlers
So if RSS Crawlers are bad, Browser Scraping isn’t efficient, what about computer vision web-page analyzers? This technology uses machine...
