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Analytics project

I want build analytics project. Got idea for specific niche and I know what I want to build. Problem is that I do not know where to start in terms of technology. I am web analyst and got experiences with website coding, html, css, bit of js, php and mysql.

Am I correct that Web Scraping and Web Crawling methods are used on build projects like wsbsentiment.io, brandwatch.com, explodingtopics.com?

on February 15, 2021
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    Some scraping (which is usually against terms of services), but probably some percentage of:

    • Purchasing data directly from e.g. product review services
    • Scraping content through APIs
    • Using analytics provided by other services, like Google Trends

    Also note that scraping/crawling is getting harder nowadays since services like cloudflare automatically throwing captchas for unusual traffic.

    You could use the web archive dumps if you can handle a lot of data.

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      Thanks Jehna, this will help