Web scraping, also known as screen scrapping, web data extraction, or web harvesting, is a technique used to collect a lot of data from websites and store it as spreadsheets to local files on the user's computer. Web scraping is separated into three categories: external computer software from companies like Octopus Data Inc. in the United States, brows extensions like Chrome extensions, and many others.
Web Scraping Services generated revenue of US$ 177 billion in 2019 and it is expected to reach around US$ 350 billion by 2025 with CAGR 6.1%.
Key Companies in the Web Scraping Services Industry:
1. Phantombuster
Phantombuster. Founded in 2016 and its headquarter in San Francisco, California USA.The company operates in 15 countries. Data scraping with PhantomBuster is not illegal provided users operate and comply with best practice guidelines
2. PilotFish Inc
PilotFish Inc was launch in 2000. And its headquarter located in Connecticut, , United States. It operate over 20 country . Pilotfish is a multidisciplinary design and innovation consultancy with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Taipei
3. Mozenda, Inc
Mozenda, Inc was launch in 2008 and it’s headquarter located in Orem, Utah, United States.it operate over 16 country.
4. Diggernaut, LLC.
Diggernaut, LLC. was launch in 2016 and it’s headquarter located in headquartered in Ridge, Missouri, United States, It work in 20 courtiers. Diggernaut is a cloud-based service for web scraping, data extraction and other ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks
5. Kuaiyi Technology
, Kuaiyi Technology founded in 2016, with its headquarters in Beijing, China, United Kingdom.With businesses in over 30 countries.
6. SysNucleus, Parseur B.V..
SysNucleus, Parseur B.V..was launch 2016 and its headquarter I Central Region, Singapore .operate over 15 country.
7. Octopus Data Inc.,
Octopus Data Inc., was founded in 2016 and its headquarters in, Walnut, California.With businesses in over 50 countries. In 2023 Octopus Data Inc. is a software company specialized in collecting data from both static and dynamic websites. It offers a web scraping tool software, Octoparse.
*Definition- Web scraping, also known as screen scrapping, web data extraction, web harvesting, is a technique used to extract large amount of data from websites which is then extracted and saved to local files in the user’s computer in the form of spreadsheets..
