With the increase of business requirements, here we are curating all the FAQs w.r.to Crawling/ Scraping . We answer them in detail.
[ At time we would also blog the Q&A format for more understanding with an example/ scenario/ usecase too ]
- Question: Can you guys setup the whole scraping ecosystem for us?
- Answer: Yes, we do.
- Q: Do you crawl all the websites?
- A. Technically we can crawl any wesbite that you may aks us with a business requirement. At the same time we respect the website and count on their hardship & content. Hence we do only scrape the publicly available data which is allowed to crawl,
- Q: How do you know if the online content is allowed to crawl?
- A: Our crawlers would automatically first check for robots.txt and proceed as per that.
- We also check the domain and the subdomains while crawling.
- A: Our crawlers would automatically first check for robots.txt and proceed as per that.
- Q: Howlong does it take to crawl a wesbite?
- A: It completely depends on the data we want to crawl and patterns in the target website.
- Typically extracting data takes less than a day to a week long too.
- A: It completely depends on the data we want to crawl and patterns in the target website.
- Q:Is it legal to crawl data?
- A: Any publicly available data can be scraped and so does the search engines. Before crawling the data we do check robots.txt for the allowed content.
- Data that is scraped usally be used for educational or reaseach.
- If to be used for commerical purpose one has to follow the respective terms & conditions/ data usage policy / need to get reuasge permissions.
- A: Any publicly available data can be scraped and so does the search engines. Before crawling the data we do check robots.txt for the allowed content.