Best proprietary search tactics and web scraping tools

by a searcher from INSEAD

1 year ago

Hi! I am looking for tips on how to be the most efficient in searching for deals and learning about your experience with web scraping tools.

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searcher from IESE Business School

Hi Lucas, Get prospect and Lusha work well for me

1 year ago | like reply | 1 like

searcher from Western Washington University

https://www.octoparse.com/ It's relatively user friendly. It took me a couple tries to get it to work with some government sites, but eventually had it working. There are also some very nice out-of-the-box site scraping for Google, Yelp, Yellowpages, etc. that turned out to work well.

1 year ago | like reply | 1 like

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