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71% of software projects fail ❌ And here’s how you can avoid it for your project:

One of the best ways for a successful kick-off is creating a ✨proof of concept✨. You can use it for any type of software project - and yes, including web scraping, too! ✅

What is a proof of concept in web scraping? 💡In this case, PoC is similar to those developed for startup projects. It helps to:

🔹Verify a mutual understanding between the founder and technology partner
🔹Define project scope and requirements
🔹Estimate the budget.

Still unsure whether you need a PoC for your web scraping project or not? Read more in our latest blog post and feel free to reach out to us with your questions!⬇️
https://forlake.io/blog/2022/10/20/what-is-proof-of-concept-and-how-is-it-useful-in-web-scraping-projects/

How to use web scraping in e-commerce projects? 💡

One of our clients reached out to us to scrape over 6500 products from 43 brands at the bloomingdales.com website - the clothing, accessories, and jewelry marketplace. We compared the prices collected in April and August 2022. Thanks to this, we could analyze:

📈 price increases & decreases by product and brand
📈 timing and value of promotions and discounts
📈 detect products withdrawn from the market.

Based on the meaningful and ready-to-use data and analysis outcome, the client could optimize their own marketing and pricing strategy.

✅ Do you want to learn more? Follow the full case study on our blog:
https://forlake.io/blog/2022/10/09/case-study-scraping-prices-from-bloomingdales-com/

How to scrape a Cloud-flare protected page? 🙋🛡️

Although they are highly secured websites, there are a few ways to bypass security measures and scrape data. What can be the solution?

In one of our projects, we utilized asynchronous scraping and sent multiple HTTP requests to the site every second. In this way, we were able to easily scrape all 1.5 million records in just 1h 30 min every day. 💪

✅ Want to learn more details? Read the full case study on our blog, or feel free to drop us a message with your questions!
https://forlake.io/blog/2022/09/29/how-to-scrape-a-cloudflare-protected-page-case-study/