Web Data
Web Data Extraction Guide: 11 Questions to Ask
The following is an excerpt from our new Web Data Extraction Playbook. We’ll be publishing the second part next week,...
A Judge Just Ordered LinkedIn to Allow Scraping – Here’s Why
When is it okay to grab data from someone else’s website, without their explicit permission? A new ruling by a...
The Hackathon Award for Best API Mashup Goes to…
Competitive programming competitions, commonly referred to as Hackathons, offer a great opportunity for new talent to show what they can...
Webz.io API Featured in New Guide to Web Development with Django
Last February, co-authors Leiff Azopardi and James Maxwell completed the latest edition of their book Tango with Django. It presents...
How to Use Online Review Ratings to Crush the Market
Sifting through millions of posts on review sites presents both a massive undertaking and an incredible opportunity for influencer marketing. Some...
How to use rated reviews for sentiment classification
Sentiment classification is a fascinating use case for machine learning. Regardless of complexity – you need two core components to...
How to access, cite, and defend web datasets in academic research
We’re used to getting questions about accessing structured web data. But recently, we’ve been fielding a different kind of use case....
Should you buy crawled web data or build your own solution?
In a technologically driven environment, the temptation to develop a proprietary web crawling solution is virtually irresistible. Our latest report...
The Race to Achieve 100% Coverage of the Web
In our new report, we deconstruct the all-too-familiar race to achieve 100% coverage of the web. Data acquisition efforts usually...
