Scraping the Web for Fun and Profit

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• The talk will start promptly as we have a hard 20:00 ending time.

Thanks very much to Scraping Hub for the speaker and organising the venue.

Speaker: Bryan O'Brien

The web is the world's largest database, with an estimated 15,197,985 petabytes of data, but this vast ocean of data is often not readily accessible for data analysis and product development. Web scraping is the process of turning this unstructured data into usable structured data.

In this talk, we will share with you how to use web scraping to get access to the data you need, how companies are using web data to grow their businesses and gain a competitive edge in the market, the future of AI enabled web scraping, and how you can take the hassle out of building your own web scraping infrastructures.

Creators of Scrapy, the most popular Python web scraping framework with over 1 million users, and a whole host of other web scraping tools, Scrapinghub is the largest and most experienced data extraction team in the world. We've over 100+ fully remote developers helping companies extract data across a variety of industries and use cases such as:

Product and Pricing Intelligence
Alternative Finance Data
Competitive and Market Research
Sales & Marketing
News & Content Monitoring
Retail & Distribution Monitoring