Description: "We are seeking a web scraping expert to automate the process of gathering data from websites. The data we need includes blog activity (e.g., Number of posts, last updated date) and CMS detection (e.g., Identifying if a website uses WordPress). You’ll use web scraping tools to efficiently extract the necessary information from the businesses identified through our initial Google search research. Your work will help us scale our data collection and analysis process.
Responsibilities:
Use web scraping tools (e.g., Scrapy, Octoparse, DataMiner) to extract data from websites (e.g., Blog post counts, CMS type, and last updated date).
Automate the scraping of multiple websites based on predefined criteria.
Ensure data is extracted in a structured and clean format (e.g., CSV, Excel).
Handle potential obstacles like CAPTCHA or rate-limiting while scraping.
Provide guidance on best practices for ethical web scraping (e.g., Respecting
robots.txt).
Skills Needed:
Expertise in web scraping tools (e.g., Scrapy, Octoparse, BeautifulSoup).
Strong understanding of CMS detection, especially WordPress.
Experience with automating data extraction tasks.
Knowledge of web scraping best practices and ethics.
Ability to clean and organize large datasets after scraping.
Ideal Candidate:
Proven experience with large-scale web scraping projects.
Familiarity with scraping tools and platforms.
Strong technical background in programming (Python, for example) may be a plus, but not required if they are proficient with scraping tools.
Experience in extracting blog activity and CMS-related data.
Delivery term: Not specified