Essays about: "web scraping"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words web scraping.

  1. 1. EXPANDING THE CONCEPT OF DIGITAL COMPETENCE A Case Study on How Digital Competence is Portrayed in a Company Transforming to Digital Service Orientation

    University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi

    Author : Patricija Ilin; Tomi Mustikka; [2019-08-08]
    Keywords : digital competence; digital servitization; digital transformation; manufacturing; digital talent; industry 4.0;

    Abstract : Digitalisation requires new ways for businesses to innovate in order to meet contemporarycustomer needs. Manufacturers are adopting digital servicebasedbusiness models to enhancecompetitive advantage. To address these challenges companies have to identify, attract anddevelop digital competence. READ MORE

  3. 2. Evaluating tools and techniques for web scraping

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Emil Persson; [2019]
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    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate state of the art web scraping tools. To support the process, an evaluation framework to compare web scraping tools is developed and utilised, based on previous work and established software comparison metrics. Twelve tools from different programming languages are initially considered. READ MORE

  4. 3. How to Build a Web Scraper for Social Media

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Teknik och samhälle

    Author : Oskar Lloyd; Christoffer Nilsson; [2019]
    Keywords : scraping; scraper; scrape; crawling; crawler; crawl; scrapy; selenium; social media; dynamic content; web; anti-scraping; anti-crawling; ajax;

    Abstract : In recent years, the act of scraping websites for information has become increasingly relevant. However, along with this increase in interest, the internet has also grown substantially and advances and improvements to websites over the years have in fact made it more difficult to scrape. READ MORE

  5. 4. A Blockchain-Based Solution to High-Volume Web Scraping With Smart Contracts on Ethereum

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Daniel Kastensson Fan; [2018]
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    Abstract : Since it is dicult to protect servers from high-volume scraping, a new wayto reduce excessive requests is needed. Using rougher methods such as ratelimit or IP control mechanisms are not sucient. In this report we propose anew solution to counter high-volume web scraping with blockchain technology. READ MORE

  6. 5. Discovery and Analysis of Social Media Data : How businesses can create customized filters to more effectively use public data

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM)

    Author : Lars Wöldern; [2018]
    Keywords : automation; marketing; machine learning; artificial intelligence; Linkedin; Bing; Google; web scraping; Headless Chrome; social selling; sales prospecting;

    Abstract : The availability of prospective customer information present on social media platforms has led to many marketing and customer-facing departments utilizing social media data in processes such as demographics research, and sales and campaign planning. However, if your business needs require further filtration of data, beyond what is provided by existing filters, the volume and rate at which data can be manually sifted, is constrained by the speed and accuracy of employees, and their digital competency. READ MORE