Extracting/Scraping Web Data with Chrome Web Scraper Extension

Scraping with the Google Chrome Extension

web scraper is an extension for the Chrome browser made exclusively for web data scraping You can setup a plan (sitemap) on how to navigate a website and specify the data to be extracted

Evaluating Information Quality

finding information related to companies, products, people, governments, resarech, etc accessibility and volume of information do not equal Quality

Examples of what someone might scrape from the web

-Product prices for competitors -Listing of real estate agents with phone number and email for marketing your home selling software product -A list of retail stores in a city for a location analysis project -A list of last month's restaurant inspections for a research project

Web Scraping

process of extracting data from website you could go website to website and copy and paste data into Excel or word, clean it, then use it you could also automate the extraction with software; clean it; then use it