Applications Archive

Enabling Market Expansion: Data Refinement at Grepsr

Grepsr’s creative approach to data refinement helps brands expand into new markets

Win the Coveted Buy Box on Amazon with Data

Just reducing the price won’t cut it. There are many factors to consider. Learn how data can help you connect […]

Top Ten Applications of E-Commerce Data Extraction

The best ways to leverage E-Commerce data to grow your brand

Why Data Refinement is Important for Your Business

Did you know most analysts spend 50 to 80 percent of their time refining their data than any other function […]

Significance of Big Data in the Tourism Industry

In a post-pandemic reality, big data helps travel agents and travelers make better decisions, minimize risks, and still have memorable […]

The Importance of Data in Journalism

Since 2021 has come to a close, we thought it apt to look back at the year one last time […]

Grepsr’s 2021 — A Year in Review

Our growth and achievements of the past year, and reasons to get excited in 2022

Impact of Shipping Data in the Shipping Industry

Before the pandemic, the global supply chain relied on predictable inventory flows. There was high schedule reliability, which meant the […]

Applications of POI (Point of Interest) Data in Business

Point of Interest (POI) data, or geographic data, is often overlooked by most businesses. In this article, we explore the […]

Data Analysis: Five Steps to Superior Data

This is one piece of a three-part series that looks at the various methods, techniques, and essential steps to ensure […]

Qualitative & Quantitative Data Analysis Methods

Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis Methods

This is one piece of a three-part series that looks at the various methods, techniques, and essential steps to ensure […]

Data Analysis: Most Used Techniques

This is one piece of a three-part series that looks at the various methods, techniques, and essential steps to superior […]

Applications of Data Normalization in Retail & Ecommerce

From improving customer experience to establishing brand authority, data normalization has wide-ranging applications in retail and ecommerce.

A Smarter MO for Data-Driven Businesses

Vary they might in their approach to business, yet a retail giant and an automobile brand agree on one thing. […]

Business Data Analytics — Why Enterprises Need It

Objectivity vs subjectivity The stories we hear as children have a way of mirroring the realities of everyday existence, unlike […]

Perfecting the 1:10:100 Rule in Data Quality

The price businesses pay every year owing to poor data quality is staggering, to say the least. A research carried […]

Grepsr named Category Leader for ‘Data Management Software’

We’re grateful to all our valued customers for leaving such stellar reviews on our profile.

Data Visualization Is Critical to Your Business — Here Are 5 Reasons Why

Data visualization is a powerful tool. When done correctly, it is a much more elegant method of explaining even complex […]

What is Data Normalization and Why Enterprises Need it

In the current era of big data, every successful business collects and analyzes vast amounts of data on a daily […]

Benefits of Using Web Scraping to Extract Airfare Data from OTAs

Use web scraping to extract airfare data from OTAs and airlines’ websites to give your customers the best possible start […]

Legality of Web Scraping — An Overview

Ever since the invention of the world wide web, web scraping has been one of its most integral facets. It […]

Image Scraping — What is It & How is It Done?

From retail and real estate to tourism and hospitality, images play a vital role in influencing customer decisions. Hence, it […]

Web scraping from alternate data sources

Data Scraping from Alternate Sources — PDF, XML & JSON

An unconventional format — PDF, XML or JSON — is just as important a data source as a web page.

QA at Grepsr — How We Ensure Highest Quality Data

Ever since our founding, Grepsr has strived to become the go-to solution for the highest quality service in the data […]

Benefits of High Quality Data to Any Data-Driven Business

From increased revenue to better customer relations, high quality data is key to your organization’s growth.

Five Primary Characteristics of High Quality Data

Big data is at the foundation of all the megatrends that are happening today. Chris Lynch, American writer More businesses […]

Why Data Extraction Services are Better Than Tools for Enterprises

The key factors that set a data extraction service apart from its do-it-yourself variant

11 Most Common Myths About Data Scraping Debunked

Data scraping is the technological process of extracting available web data in a structured format. More businesses globally are realizing […]

Common Challenges During Amazon Data Collection

Over the last twenty years, Amazon has established itself as the world’s largest ecommerce platform having started out as a […]

Customer Review Insights: Analyzing Buyer Sentiments of Amazon Products

Actionable insights from Amazon reviews for better decision-making

A Look Back at Grepsr’s 2020

A brief look at Grepsr’s achievements in data extraction and industry reach in 2020, and a glimpse into 2021 plans.

Insights into Covid-19 Test Locations in the USA

An analysis of coronavirus testing facilities — geographic distribution, types, franchises, and testing and turnaround times

Importance of Data and Data Quality Assessment

According to Charles Babbage, one of the major inventors of computer technology, “Errors using inadequate data are much less than […]

What is Data Visualization

According to Wikipedia, Data visualization is an interdisciplinary field that deals with the graphic representation of data. It is a […]

Top 10 Benefits of Segmentation: Data Driven Market

For some years now, experts and executives in the business world have been discussing whether market segmentation

What is Web Scraping?

Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is the process of extracting data from websites using web extensions or applications. While web scraping can be done […]

Our Newly Redesigned Website is Live!

We’ve redesigned our website to make it easier for you to find what you’re looking for

Preview the New Look Grepsr App

Everybody’s favorite big data tool is getting a fresh coat of paint (and some behind-the-scenes tweaks)

Role of Data Mining During the COVID-19 Outbreak

How web scraping and data mining can help predict, track and contain current and future disease outbreaks

Grepsr’s 2019 — A Year (and Decade) in Review

Time flies when you’re having fun

Happy Holidays

And a very happy new year!

Introducing Grepsr’s New Slack-like Support

Making our data acquisition specialists more accessible to busy professionals

Getting an Unstructured Data Error Message? Here’s Why

When you tag data fields using our Grepsr for Chrome extension, you may get an error message sometimes that says […]

Signing Up/In with Google

As mentioned in our May update, we recently implemented Auth0 Single Sign-On (SSO) across the Grepsr platform. We have also […]

Introducing Grepsr’s Data Quality Report

Quality assured data to help you make the best business decisions

Grepsr Updates — May 2019

A short update about a few minor tweaks to Grepsr apps:

APIfy the Web with Grepsr Realtime

Convert any website into easy-to-use APIs

Report History/Activity on the Grepsr App

A walk-through detailing your report history and how to access (and download) your report’s data from historic crawl runs

Grepsr’s 2018 — A Year in Review

As we say hello to 2019, everyone here at Grepsr firstly wishes our readers and valued customers a very Happy […]

Data Retention in Grepsr

New policy announcement

Automate Future Crawls Using Scheduler

Configure and enable schedules to automate future crawls

Data Delivery via File Feed

Under File Feed, there are two URLs — marked ‘Latest’ and ‘All’. ‘Latest’ gives you the data from the last successful extraction […]

Data Delivery via Box

Have your Grepsr files synced automatically to your Box account

Data Delivery via Amazon S3

Have your Grepsr files synced automatically to your Amazon S3 bucket

Data Delivery via Google Drive

Have your Grepsr files synced automatically to your Google Drive

Data Delivery via Webhooks

Get notified as soon as your Grepsr data is ready

Data Delivery via FTP

Have your Grepsr files synced automatically to your FTP/SFTP server

Data Delivery via Dropbox

Have your Grepsr files synced automatically to your Dropbox

Data Delivery via Email

Have your Grepsr files automatically delivered by email

Customized Data Extraction via Grepsr Concierge

Although Grepsr for Chrome is a powerful tool in itself, it sometimes lacks the capability to extract data from some […]

Web Scraping Tutorial for Grepsr Browser Extensions

We designed Grepsr Browser Extensions to make data extraction simple for all of our customers — whether they’re technically in […]

Common Issues and Tips to Get the Best out of Grepsr

We know how annoying it is when you’ve spent time setting up Grepsr for Chrome to collect your data fields, and then […]

A New Look to the Grepsr App

If you’re a regular Grepsr app user, you may have noticed a slightly modified navigation bar with some new icons […]

Grepsr — the Numbers That Matter

Our stats since the start of 2018

Feeds & Endpoint API for Your Data in Grepsr

In our last post, we showed you how to automate your data delivery process in the Grepsr app. This time let’s […]

Automate Your Data Delivery on the Grepsr App

I’m sure you’ve already got the hang of Grepsr for Chrome by now. If you’re like some of our users who are […]

Two Cool Features You May Have Missed in Grepsr for Chrome

If you’re in constant need of up-to-date and accurate data for your business, chances are you’re using our chrome extension, Grepsr […]

Track Changes in Your CSV Data Using Python and Pandas

So you’ve set up your online shop with your vendors’ data obtained via Grepsr for Chrome, and you’re receiving their […]

Kick-Start Your E-commerce Venture with Grepsr

400+ million entrepreneurs worldwide are attempting to start 300+ million companies, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Approximately a hundred […]

Screen Scraping – 4 Important Questions for Scoping your Web Project

Screen scraping should be easy. Often, however, it’s not. If you’ve ever used a data extraction software and then spent […]

How to Use Grepsr for Chrome to Scrape the Web for Free

A beginner’s guide to your favorite DIY web scraping tool Just over a year ago, we introduced the all new Grepsr along […]

Our Kimono Labs Replacement (Grepsr for Chrome) Levels Up 🚀

We’ve recently made a number of improvements to make Grepsr for Chrome that little bit easier, and more handy to use. We’ve […]

Welcome To The (New) Grepsr Blog

Hello, Grepsr friends and family, and welcome to the next chapter of Grepsr Blog! It may not look much different yet, […]

Introducing the All New Grepsr

Chrome Extension, APIs, Better Support & Much More

Importance of Web Crawling in the Age of Big Data

Big Data has become an internet buzz lately. Not a day goes by without a mention of Big Data in many […]

FIVE Essential Questions for Assessing your Big Data Deployment Readiness

When it comes to making an effective deployment of data, what matters the most is having a well-rounded data deployment […]

Our New Year Trip to Nagarkot

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France What else would you […]

10 Digital Marketing Trends that will Impact Your Business in 2015

During the last few years, SoLoMo (social, local, and mobile) have remained the defining trends in marketing, and data has […]

Five Major Impacts of Location Data on Marketing

It’s not merely a coincidence that, today, almost all of the major business enterprises run online store locator services to […]

Data Extraction for BI: Picking the Right Services is Crucial

Finding the appropriate data warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI) platforms that can

Seven Areas Where Big Data has Brought Big Transformations

As the volume, variety, and velocity of Big Data increases, so does its value and application. Today, there is a widespread […]

Data Mining to Predict, Track & Contain the Ebola Outbreak

One of the most diverse continents on earth, Africa astounds the world with its vast savannas and great deserts and […]

We Have Launched Online Data Store

Having worked hard in the past several months to turn the project into reality, we are immensely happy to announce […]

Data Mining for Developing Business Intelligence

The growing use of digital technologies in every sphere of life has resulted in the rapid escalation of digital data. […]

Maximizing the Benefits of Location Information Data: A Case Study

Advantages of Location Information Data Obtaining and integrating location information data into the day-to-day business operation policies and practices are […]

How Grepsr Works: A Brief Introduction

Web crawling and data extraction services at Grepsr are simple, quick, hassle free and intuitive. We focus on providing top–quality […]

11 Interesting Quotes about Data

These days, almost everybody—be it a casual technophile or a trailblazing technocrat—has something to say about the usefulness of data. […]

How are Data Sharing Tech Revolutionizing Education through Educational Data Mining?

Education-related statistics show the stark contradictions of our time, but they also tell us about the immense possibilities and big […]

Data Analytics for Better Business Intelligence

Advanced information technology has brought a massive paradigm shift in every aspect of human life. We spend more and more of […]

Why Data Visualization Matters to Your Business

There are several reasons why we believe that visual representation of data is becoming an integral part of Big Data […]

Big Data and the Power of Personalization

According to Wikipedia, Big data is a field that treats ways to analyze, systematically extract information from, or otherwise deal with data […]

Data Science in Healthcare Revolution

Soon, wearable biomedical sensors are going to be the new gadgets of the post-smart phone era. They will keep track […]

Big Data is Redefining News

If digital data were something physical, it would have massively altered the shape of our world, probably, with the new […]

Web Crawling: Why is Service a Better Option than Software?

Data Discovery Holds the Future An overwhelming proportion of data that businesses use for the purpose of developing business insights […]

Grepsr: A Brief Story

Launched in 2012, Grepsr is a data management start-up based in Nepal and focused on web crawling. It has been […]

Location Analytics: ‘Where’ is the Knowledge of Data

Digital Technology and the Rediscovery of Geography A substantial amount of data that Grepsr processes and provides to its business […]

Data Mining: How Can Businesses Capitalize on Big Data?

In the recent years, data mining has become a prickly issue. The big controversies and clamors it has gathered in the political […]

Turning Data into an Asset

Have you ever been overwhelmed or even inundated by a sheer amount of data you have to handle every day? […]

Welcoming New Year 2014 with Renewed Energy

2013 in the Retrospect 2013 was a very productive year for Grepsr. Measuring our success as a startup, we were […]

Staying ahead with Automated Price Comparison

The spur of e-commerce and online shopping around the world has brought a huge change in the way marketing is […]

Web Scraping vs API

Every system you come across today has an API already developed for their customers or it is at least in […]

Importance of web crawling in the age of Big Data

Big Data has become an Internet buzz lately. Not a day goes by without a mention of Big Data in […]

Grepsr – How it Works

This video will show you how Grepsr works. Watch the video and get started with your first project at Grepsr […]

Scheduling Web Crawlers

In this video we will show you how to schedule your web crawlers to run automatically. – On your project […]

Data Delivery via Email

An updated version of this article is available here. In this video we will show you how to receive the […]

Data Sync with Dropbox

An updated version of this article is available here. In this video we will show you how you can sync […]

Data Sync with FTP

An updated version of this article is available here. In this video we will show you how you can sync […]

Data Sync with HTTP Callbacks

An updated version of this article is available here. In this video we will show you how to sync the […]

Using Browser Plugins

We have browser plugins for all major browsers to help you easily capture screenshots. Browser plugins are especially useful if […]

Mark & Tag Requirements

In this video we will show you how to explain your requirements visually by marking them on screenshots. If you […]

Search your Data

In this video we will show you how you can perform a search on the crawled data. This functionality is […]

Sneak peak at the all new Grepsr, launching May 2013

It’s been a busy year for all of us at Grepsr! We may not have been active with keeping everyone […]

Grepsr at Startup Asia event in Jakarta

We are just back from an awesome start-up event in Jakarta, Indonesia organized by TechInAsia. There were big investors and […]

Web Crawling Software or Web Crawling Service

Some people ask us if we are a “service” or a “software”. We simply tell them – we are a […]

Sychronizing data extracted with Grepsr

One of Grepsr’s most powerful feature is the ability to synchronize data in a variety of different ways when a […]

Why is Web Crawling important?

Data lies in the heart of any business, even more if its tech related. With all the open standards of […]

SSL enabled in Grepsr

At Grepsr, we are committed towards the security and privacy of your data. We have enabled SSL on our application […]

Grepsr and FTP – permissions and settings

When you set your FTP inside Grepsr so that the system can automatically upload extracted data, please make sure of […]

Grepsr now supports DropBox (and FTP)

We have some news! We are very happy to announce that Grepsr will now add content to your DropBox and […]

Managed Data Extraction Service

Grepsr is what we like to call, “Managed Data Extraction Service”. Here are some of the reasons why we call […]

Official Launch of Grepsr (Beta)

We are immensely proud to launch Grepsr today. Grepsr is probably one of the first Web 2.0 Software as a […]