The client’s objective was to connect the whole world using experiences in the double-sided marketplace. This client has the accountability of making sure the incorporation they offer for the customers works appropriately for every user on every web page. Therefore, they observe 1000s of consumer websites frequently. The moment anything goes wrong, they wish to identify that to alert the customers. Due to that, they require to crawl regularly.
Although X-Byte offers many functionalities to help data extraction, this client uses X-Byte for scaling their scraping volume to scrape HTML files with no extraction. So, they have applied their approaches to analyzing data.
CHALLENGE
The client utilized a big web service provider for hosting solutions to scrape websites however because they leveled the scraping volume, they were reaching their monthly requests limit that made it hard to monitor the websites. They required a healthy crawling infrastructure that allowed them to scrape at scale.
The client has tried some monitoring tools but they found these tools to be more costly and don’t fulfil their requirements for this particular use case.
Then they thought of setting their proxies. However, they soon understood that it might come with ample burden of maintaining proxies as well as keeping them working.
Then they realized that X-Byte Enterprise Crawling’s web scraping services are the best solution for them, after trying many other competitors. They liked our competitive pricing as well as great service too!
SOLUTION
By using our web scraping services, the client gets complete control of how they observe these websites. The client had also realized that getting the layer between spiders as well as proxy infrastructure is very powerful. That’s how, they can immediately alert customers if the integration breaks, therefore they can correct it quickly as well as keep having bookings that are important for the client’s business model.
For a client, having complete HTML of the page while scraping and building own layers on the top of our web scraping services have proved to be the finest solution.
As the client has realized that crawling is not their core functionality, they would still consider that as an important part of running the business smoothly.
X-BYTE SOLUTION
Setting up the Crawler – The crawler was initially configured such that it could automatically scrape product price and essential data fields for present categories on a daily basis.
Data Template: A template was created utilizing data structuring based on the schema provided by the customer.
Delivery of Data: Without any manual input from either side, the closing data was supplied in an XML format through Data API regularly.
The dataset had all the information including comments, news timelines, most viewed articles, customer behaviour, etc. All of the scraped data was indexed using hosted indexing components, and search APIs were made available so that a client could get the results every few minutes.
RESULT
The client has appreciated the flexible prices that X-Byte had given that allow them to gauge their requests because they require to with the predictable costs.
