How to scrape data from amazon.com with Bright Data’s data collectors, and create a product search API that you can deploy to the web and monetize it. By Oskar Petr.
APIs (application programming interfaces) are a way of communication between two or more computers, with the intention of passing requested data from one computer to another. APIs can share a piece of document that can later be accordingly reacted to by the requesting computer.
The article then will walk you over:
- Why is it important that companies should make use of APIs?
- Who can benefit from the existence of an API?
- Data collectors
- Creating the application
- Deploying an API
- Is it legal to scrape the web
- Where to deploy and monetize your API?
Web scraping is used for data extraction from websites’ DOM element values. Scrapers, who scrape the web, can be given a direct path to certain elements in the DOM structure and extract the element’s value. Collected values can be then passed onto the API’s response. Creating your API with the power of scraping information from the web is making your business a lot more powerful in the side of transferring information, collecting it and in developer experience. Good one!
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