The background of web crawlers, what is web crawlers? What is it for?

The background of web crawlers is that with the development of the Internet and the growth of data, people need to obtain all kinds of information on the Internet more quickly and efficiently. Traditional manual methods cannot meet this need, so web crawling technology came into being. Web crawlers can automatically access web pages and scrape the data in them, which greatly improves the efficiency and accuracy of data acquisition.

Web crawler technology is widely used in search engines, data collection, public opinion monitoring and other fields, providing people with strong data support. Octopus Collector is a comprehensive, simple and widely applicable Internet data collector. If you need to collect data, Octopus Collector can provide you with intelligent identification and flexible custom collection rule settings to help you quickly obtain the data you need.

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What a web crawler can do: Data collection.

A web crawler is a program or script that automatically scrapes information from the World Wide Web according to certain rules.

Web crawlers are widely used in Internet search engines or other similar websites to automatically capture the content of all the pages they can access in order to obtain or update the content and retrieval methods of these websites.

A web crawler (also known as a crawler, a web bot, more often called a web chaser in the FOAF community) is a program or script that automatically scrapes information from the World Wide Web according to certain rules.

When people search for keywords on the web (such as Google), they are really comparing the content in the database to find the ones that match the user. The quality of the web crawler determines the ability of the search engine, the web crawler is efficient and the programming structure is good.

How it works: Traditional crawlers start from the URL of one or more initial web pages, obtain the URL on the initial web page, and then continuously extract new URLs from the current page and put them in the queue until a certain stop condition of the system is met.

Functionally speaking, crawlers generally have three functions: network data collection, processing, and storage

Web crawler collection.

Web crawlers crawl text information and information in web pages by defining collection fields. And the web page also contains some hyperlink information, and the web crawler system continuously obtains other web pages on the web through the hyperlink information in the web page. The web crawler starts from the URL of one or several initial web pages, obtains the URL on the initial web page, the crawler extracts and saves the resources that need to be extracted from the web page, and extracts other links that exist in the web page at the same time, and then extracts the resources required in the web page after sending a request, receiving a response and parsing the page again.

2.Data processing.

Data processing is the technical process of analyzing and processing data, both numerical and non-numerical. The initial data crawled by web crawlers needs to be "cleaned", and in the data processing steps, the analysis, sorting, calculation, and processing of various raw data are processed and processed, and valuable and meaningful data is extracted and deduced from a large amount of data that may be disorganized and difficult to understand.

3.Data Centers.

The so-called data center, also known as data storage, refers to the ability to obtain the required data and break it down into useful components, store all the extracted and parsed data in a database or cluster through a scalable method, and then create a function that allows users to find relevant data sets or extracts in a timely manner.

To put it simply, the crawler is a detection machine, and its basic operation is to simulate human behavior to wander around, click buttons, check data, or memorize the information you see. It's like a bug crawling tirelessly around a building.

It can be used to crawl data on web pages, such as news, and use the data for data analysis.

The crawler is a detection machine, and its basic operation is to simulate human behavior and go to various ** walks. Clicking a button to check the data or reciting the information you see is like a bug crawling tirelessly around a building.

IP HTTP crawler (Web crawler) is a program or script that automatically extracts information from the World Wide Web according to certain rules, and they are widely used in Internet search engines or other similar websites, which can automatically collect all the pages they can access to obtain or update the content and retrieval methods of these. Functionally, crawlers are generally divided into three parts: data collection, processing, and storage. Traditional crawlers start from the URL of one or several initial web pages, obtain the URL on the initial web page, and in the process of crawling, continuously extract new URLs from the current page and put them into the queue until a certain stop condition of the system is met.

The workflow of the spotlight crawler is more complex, and it needs to filter the links that are not related to the topic according to a certain HTTP analysis algorithm, keep the useful links and put them into the URL queue waiting to be crawled. It will then select the URL to crawl next from the queue based on a certain search policy, and repeat the above process until it stops when a certain condition of the system is reached. In addition, all the ** crawled by the crawler will be stored by the system, analyzed, filtered, and indexed for subsequent query and retrieval; For focused crawlers, the analysis results obtained from this process may also provide feedback and guidance for future crawling processes.

Crawlers can scrape data on the Internet. Crawlers can be implemented in many programming languages, and Python is just one. So what you want to know is what a web crawler can do.

Once you have that data, you can move on to the next step.

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Web crawlers can scrape data on the Internet, that is, through programs to obtain the data they want on the web page. Mengdie data can be collected and scraped for Eleme, Meituan, and **.

Start with a certain page (usually the homepage), read the content of the page, find other links in the page, and then look for the next page through these links, and so on until all the pages are crawled. If the entire Internet is regarded as a **, then the web spider can use this principle to crawl all the web pages on the Internet.

Web crawlers (also known as web spiders, web bots, and more often referred to as web chasers in the FOAF community) are programs or scripts that automatically scrape information from the World Wide Web according to certain rules. Other names that are not commonly used are ants, auto-indexes, simulators, or worms.

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2. Autohome big data portrait: use the capture of forum speeches and NLP to make portraits of car owners of various models.

Real estate in the same city, Anjuke, Q Fang.com, Soufang and other real estate**: Capture real estate sales, rental and sales information, and analyze the lively housing price problems.

5. Dianping, Meituan and other catering and consumer categories**: Capture the opening of various stores, as well as user consumption and evaluation, and understand the changing tastes of the surrounding area, the so-called "crawler on the tip of the tongue". and a variety of variations of flavors, such as:

Beer is declining, and Chongqing noodles are rising.

Classified information such as the same city**: Capture the data of investment promotion, analyze the pricing, and help netizens solve their doubts.

7. Lagou.com, China Talent Network, etc.**: Capture all kinds of job information, analyze the most popular positions and salaries.

8. **Internet and other medical information**: capture the doctor's information and cross-compare it in the macro situation.

10. Ctrip, Qunar and 12306 and other transportation categories**: Capturing information such as flights and high-speed railways can reflect whether the economy is entering a downward channel from one side.

Used cars in the same city, easy cars and other car categories**: Find out the best time to buy a car and the car with the most value.

13. Car rental, eHi Car Rental, etc.**: Grab the car rental information listed by them, and track the car rental ** and quantity for a long time.

14. All kinds of trusts**: understand the type and scale of trust projects by capturing the data of trusts.