Screen Data Capture

Our Web Crawling technology is a next generation Screen Data Capture-based client data-management and processing system. The system helps to scrape data from the web and efficiently manage and process the same. This allows the user to automate almost any repetitive web operations such as collecting pieces of information from Web pages, extracting web links etc. making the process faster, error–free and convenient.

When our web crawling system visits a web page, it "reads" the visible text, the hyperlinks, and the content of the various tags used in the site, such as keyword rich Meta tags. This is how it filters the data and adds the required data to the company database. The System is programmed to comb through the Internet periodically to determine whether there has been any significant changes.

If a site is experiencing heavy traffic or technical difficulties, the system is programmed to note that and revisit the site again, hopefully after the technical issues have subsided. Web crawling is an important method for collecting data on, and keeping up with, the rapidly expanding internet. A vast number of web pages are continually being added every day, and information is constantly changing so for this reason the web crawling system regularly ensures that our databases are up-to-date.

There are several uses for the program, perhaps the most popular being search engines using it to provide webs surfers with relevant websites. Other users include linguists and market researchers, or anyone trying to search information from the Internet in an organized manner. Alternative names for a web crawler include web spider, web robot, bot, crawler, and automatic indexer.

A web crawler may be used by anyone seeking to collect information on the internet. Search engines frequently use web crawlers to collect information about what is available on public web pages. Their primary purpose is to collect data so that when internet surfers enter a search term on their site, they can quickly provide the surfer with relevant web sites. Linguists may use a web crawler to perform a textual analysis, combing the internet to determine what words are commonly used today. Market researchers may use a web crawler to determine and assess trends in a given market.

Key Features

  • Copying text from a web page.
  • Entering data into forms and submitting.
  • Iterating through search results pages.
  • Export data (PDF, MS Word, images)
  • Integrates with existing systems.
  • Can call out to external applications using a variety of methods and APIs.
  • •Extract text between specific HTML tags.
  • Export the extracted data into Microsoft Access database, TEXT file, Excel file (CSV), XML file;
  • Start crawling from a list of the URLs specified by user
  • Filter the extracted data.

Deliverables

  • Data scraping from the web.
  • Automation of repetitive web operations
  • Data Filtering
  • Updation of Company database
  • Market Research
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