Web scraping, also known as screen scrapping, web data extraction, or web harvesting, is a technique used to collect a lot of data from websites and store it as spreadsheets to local files on the user's computer. Web scraping is separated into three categories: external computer software from companies like Octopus Data Inc. in the United States, brows extensions like Chrome extensions, and many others.
Web Scraping Services generated revenue of US$ 177 billion in 2019 and it is expected to reach around US$ 350 billion by 2025 with CAGR 6.1%.
Key Companies in the Web Scraping Services Industry:
1. Phantombuster
Phantombuster. Founded in 2016 and its headquarter in San Francisco, California USA.The company operates in 15 countries. Data scraping with PhantomBuster is not illegal provided users operate and comply with best practice guidelines
2. PilotFish Inc
PilotFish Inc was launch in 2000. And its headquarter located in Connecticut, , United States. It operate over 20 country . Pilotfish is a multidisciplinary design and innovation consultancy with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Taipei
3. Mozenda, Inc
Mozenda, Inc was launch in 2008 and it’s headquarter located in Orem, Utah, United States.it operate over 16 country.
