Web Scraping With #google Sheets
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Web scraping and utilizing various APIs are great ways to collect #data from websites and applications that can later be used in data #analytics. There is a company called HiQ that is well known for web scraping. HiQ crawls various “Public” websites to collect data and provide analytics for companies on their employees. They help companies find top talent using sites data like Linkedin, and other public sources to gain the information needed in their algorithms.However, they ran into legal issues when Linkedin asked them to cease and desist as well as put in certain technical methods to slow down HiQ’s web crawlers. HiQ subsequently sued Linkedin and won! The judge said as long as the data was public, it was ok to scrape!Image from commit strip (Here)Web scraping typically requires a complex (...)