As part of my post on web scraping from the Construct Digital blog, I have shared some code here that can get you started on your first data gathering project.
You can find the entire blog entry here.
We are not endorsing scraping for unethical use, and this guide and code serves as a knowledge repository for marketeers who operate within the confines for PDPA and greater GDPR laws – which do not specifically cover web scraping but has implications for scrapers in terms of what they do with the data (selling, commercializing, reproducing, infringing).
We are strong advocates of data protection and privacy. As a crash course, here is a refresher on our PDPA vs GDPR article. As a reminder, here are some major sites which explicitly tell you NOT to scrape their data:
• eBay
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Taobao
This is just one of the many ways we are helping marketeers across the region to increase their Digital Marketing ROI and Effectiveness. Other problems we can help you solve include (but are not limited to!) creating and managing your data pipeline, deriving insights from customer data, and predicting sales decisions from your sales data.
If you have a question about what we wrote here, or have a marketing data problem that needs cracking, drop us a line for a chat. We’re friendly. Promise.