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Jul 10, 2020Liked by Abhi Chakravarty

After going through this post i felt like this is one of the best information i have read

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Thank you for reading!

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There are bunch of such examples in the internet. What i'm looking as a product manager is a no-code/low-code solution. There's no time for all this stuff with the environment, bugs, servers, databases etc. All I need is to get data, store it somewhere where I have access to and be able to add some scripts to process the data.

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thanks for your feedback. check these tools out. https://www.scrapingbee.com/blog/web-scraping-tools/ . note that any low code /no code solution will not be very flexible and you might need to pay to use some of them

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Agreed. As a PM, the time required to build this is better spent on more strategic work and getting more users.

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scrapy is a muscled candidate to get job done. especially if the source is dynamically changing DOM tree. https://scrapy.org/

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is it legal to scarp any data to any extend?

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Yes, unless you use it unethically. Web scraping is just like any tool in the world. You can use it for good stuff and you can use it for bad stuff. A great example when web scraping can be illegal is when you try to scrape nonpublic data. Here's more http://scrapingauthority.com/2016/08/22/web-scraping-legal

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