Understanding URL scraping
Understanding URL scraping Business URL scraping is the process where you automatically extract and filter URLs of WebPages that have specific features. The features that you are looking for vary depending on your goal. For example, if you are looking for a site where you can place your comment and get back link juice, you should go for WebPages that allow dofollow comments. Techniques for URL scraping There are many techniques that you can use to get the URL that you are looking for. Some of these techniques include: Copy pasting: this is where you visit a given site and check whether it has the features that you are looking for. For example, if you are interested in dofollow links, you should visit a number of sites and find out if they have your target links. You should then identify the ones that have the features that you are looking for and compile a list. Text grepping: this is a technique that allows you to search plain text on websites that match a regular expressi...