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Basic question, how does one profit from scraping data and what kinda data? Taking a stab at answering it: you scrape the data and build a business around sell
by hall0ween 5y ago
Basic question, how does one profit from scraping data and what kinda data?
Taking a stab at answering it: you scrape the data and build a business around selling it. Stock prices? But that's boring, plus how many others are doing it? I bet a lot.
- 323 5y agoThese are scraping artificially limited releases clothes/shoes. You buy a shoe at $100 and immediately sell it at $1000. Artificial scarcity - every week you release a "limited edition item", but if you do the math, it's not limited edition at all if you integrate over a year.
- ushtaritk421 5y agoHere's a project that's been in the news recently that relies heavily on scraped data. http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/ http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/
- throw1234651234 5y ago1. Be job site. 2. Have employees that cost money call facilities and get job listings. 3. Establishing relationships with facilities to list jobs. 4. Buy job listings from 3rd parties. 5. List them for free hoping to make margin. 6. Scraper steals all jobs, lags site, and gets value of hard work for free.
- hall0ween 5y agoahh thanks
- ushtaritk421 5y agoAnything you might look up or keep track of online that helps your business is probably being scraped by someone who is using it themselves or selling access to the curated data set. Prices (are yours high, low compared to competition?), reviews, locations of physical stores, search result placement (where does your widget show up when someone searches "widget" on your site?), just to name a few use cases.