Description

Jakob Greenfeld – Scraping The Web For Fun & Profit | 8.66 GB

Scraping The In the past 12 months, I built 5 profitable businesses and made over $100,000 leveraging my web scraping skills.
In this course, I’m for the first time sharing everything I know about the topic.

You’ll learn:

– Effective strategies to speed up your scraping scripts and reduce error rates.
– How to avoid getting blocked.
– Advanced screen scraping methods that will allow you to scrape websites that require a login.
– How to reverse engineer browser requests.
– How to find undocumented APIs and use them to extract information that’s not publicly available.
– What I’ve learned about building and selling data products.

You’ll get access to:
– 10+ videos (á 20-40minutes each)
– All the source code used in the videos.
(I’ll be adding additional videos over time based on the feedback I’m getting.)

The course is non-linear and self-paced.

“Scraping the Web for Fun & Profit” is a phrase often used colloquially to refer to the practice of extracting data from websites for personal or financial gain.

Web scraping can serve different purposes, including:

1. Data Analysis: This can be useful for market research, competitor analysis, or gathering information for academic purposes.
2. Content Aggregation: This can be beneficial for news aggregation, price comparison, or creating specialized search engines.
3. Research and Monitoring: Web  can assist in monitoring online mentions, reviews, or customer sentiment about a particular product, service, or brand. It enables businesses to stay updated with the latest information or track online discussions.
4. Personal Projects: Some individuals may engage in web  as a hobby or personal project. They may scrape websites for specific data they find interesting or to create personal databases or archives.