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Analyze data from traditional and alternative sources to predict valuations and spot trends

Real estate service providers can leverage big data to improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs, in turn enhancing their position as strategic partners to maximize and stabilize returns.

Big data has also  enabled the housing industry to identify minute yet important differences between local communities.

Whether it is data from traditional property listings (Zillow, Redfin, etc.) or alternative sources like social media or search engines, companies can leverage such data points to develop predictive algorithms and models, thus simplifying and improving buyer experience.

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Lead Generation with Data

Boost sales with targeted leads using web scraping. Extract high-quality data from Google Maps, Yelp, LinkedIn, and more.

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Property Price Tracking with Data

Empower Your Real Estate Decisions with Grepsr's Reliable Property Price Data from Zillow and Trulia.

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Accurate Property Value Assessment with Data

Unlock the Power of Big Data for Real Estate Valuations with Grepsr. Look beyond traditional indicators to assess property value.

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Grepsr is extremely flexible and ensures that we are able to get the data we want, when we want it — no matter how difficult it might be to obtain it. Their speed and the quality of their work has always been top notch. If we ever have a problem, or would like a new feature, Grepsr responds within a day and makes the extra effort to meet our needs. Grepsr is a great partner.

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A collection of articles, announcements and updates from Grepsr

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Web Scraping Zillow: A Modern Approach to Real Estate

What comes to mind when we say the word ‘real estate’? Are you thinking of a broker dressed in a pantsuit, with shiny white teeth, walking across a manicured lawn? Or the smell of warm cookies wafting in from an open house with a ‘For Sale’ sign planted in the grass? For decades, buying and […]

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Popular ETL Tools for Web Scraping

Learn about the most popular ETL tools in this blog. Ever felt like you’re searching for a specific detail buried deep within a massive website? That’s the essence of web scraping! And if you’re familiar with finding the needle in a haystack, you’ll understand the challenge. Web Scraping is essential and you must do it. […]

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Transforming Operations: RPA and Web Scraping in Action

Imagine a world where you no longer have to do the repetitive grunt work that neither sparks joy nor creativity.  It completely vanishes from your sight as you have digital robots that tirelessly do structural tasks following a regular pattern without any turmoil.  As a result, you are released from the shackles of mundane labor.  […]

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Mine Reddit’s Billions of Opinions: Web Scraping Reddit and Sentiment Analysis (2024)

In January 2024 alone, there were 7.57 billion visits to Reddit. There are 2.8 million subreddits with discussions on everything imaginable — from r/cats to r/memes and one of our personal favorites, r/dataisbeautiful.  These numbers in billions and millions are indicative of Reddit as one of the largest online communities in the world; which makes […]

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ETL for Web Scraping – A Comprehensive Guide

Dive into the world of web scraping, and data, learn how ETL helps you transform raw data into actionable insights.

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Unraveling Job Market Dynamics: Leveraging Data Analytics for Competitive Edge

The notion of hiring the “right” candidate needs clarification of what’s “right” for your organization. Starting from the alignment of values, motivation, ambition, and technical skills required for the position.  Along with soft skills including emotional intelligence which goes without saying, are critical components in constructing a team that is productive and result-driven.  There’s a […]

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Web Scraping Best Practices for RPA Integration

The new era of RPA- a shift from manual hard work to automated smart work in business.  RPA is the process of automating routine and repetitive tasks in business operations. Robotic Process Automation uses technology that is steered by business logic and structured inputs. People might mistake it for a robot doing their mundane jobs […]

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Harness The Power of Web Scraping Services for Qualitative Data Extraction

With the rise in Global Big Data analytics, the market’s annual revenue is estimated to reach $68.09 billion by 2025. Like the vast and deep ocean, Big Data encompasses huge volumes of diverse datasets that gradually mount with time. It refers to the enormous datasets that are far too complex to be handled by traditional […]

Introduction to Web Scraping & RPA

Web scraping automatically extracts structured data like prices, product details, or social media metrics from websites. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) focuses on automating routine and repetitive tasks like data entry, report generation, or file management. When seamlessly integrated through tools like webhooks or API calls, these technologies can significantly boost an organization’s operational efficiency by […]

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Quantitative Data: Definition, Types, Collection & Analysis

Data is ubiquitous and plays a vital role in helping us understand the world we live in. Quantitative data, in particular, helps us make sense of our daily experiences.  Whether it’s the time we wake up in the morning to get to work, the distance we travel to get back home, the speed of our […]

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Extract Google Trends Data by Web Scraping

Approximately 99,000 search queries are processed by Google every passing second. This translates to 8.5 billion searches per day and 2 trillion global searches per year.  From the estimated data, we can consider that an average person conducts between three to four searches every day.  “Explore what the world is searching” – Google Trends. The […]

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Qualitative Data Analysis: Explore Types, Methods, and Examples

“Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.”  — George V. Higgins What’s the first thing you think of when you hear “Data”?  Most individuals start imagining the flow of numbers, facts & figures neatly illustrated in an Excel file. It all makes perfect sense because these represent Quantitative Data.  These data are crucial […]

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Car Rental Data Unwrapped: Merry Miles and the Christmas Story in the UK

Delve into the festive drive as we analyze 50K+ car rental records from ‘Sixt – Rent a Car’ during December 2023.  From the holiday surges on Christmas Eve to discovering budget-friendly gems like the Kia Picanto, come with us as we decode the Merry Miles of Christmas car rentals in the UK. Holiday seasons bring […]

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2023 in a Nutshell: A Retrospective

2023 in a nutshell: Antifragile growth, soaring NPS at 52, MENA data enthusiasm, tech revolution, Pline launch, and a new workspace facility – all in one exciting year!

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Blog Scraping: Uncover Opportunities for Data-Driven Growth

A study by HubSpot marketing shows that those businesses who publish blogs get 55% more website visitors, 77% more inbound links, and 434% more indexed pages than those who don’t.  The ultimate goal of any business is to continually increase its lead conversion rate. Content is essentially what leads the organization to bring more leads […]

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Relevance of Web Scraping in the Age of AI 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has flourished into a rapidly evolving domain of computer systems that can function perfectly in tasks that need human intelligence. Statistics claim that the market volume for AI is projected to reach $738.80 billion by 2030. This essentially means that there is a growing demand for AI-related services, leading to an expansion […]

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ETL Data and Web Scraping Brilliance

Did you know that in a world drowning in information, making sense of raw data from the internet is like finding a needle in a haystack? However, looking at the silver lining, the dynamic duo – ETL and web scraping can unravel the chaos of unlimited, unstructured data into clarity and make sense.  ETL is […]

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NYC POI Data Dynamics: Decoding Impermanence

Geographical locations or POIs are not entities that last for posterity. We collected NYC POI data to decode the various dynamics that may help executives make informed decisions within the backdrop of impermanence. Drawing inspiration from the ‘philosophical entertainer’ Alan Watts‘ thoughts that the more permanent a thing, the more lifeless it becomes, our case […]

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E-commerce Scraping: Beyond Buy Box for Holistic Growth

Nearly half of the world’s population now partakes in the dynamic E-commerce market. In the e-commerce trajectory, studies show that user penetration is projected to jump from 40.8% in 2023 to 48.7% in 2028. Our last blog discussed how important it is for retailers to leverage Buy Box monitoring data to win the Buy Box […]

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Buy Box Data: What Every Seller Needs to Know 

Did you know, winning the Buy Box can increase your chances of becoming an Amazon best-seller? The Buy Box accounts for 90% of the total sales on the platform, making it crucial for sellers to leverage the Buy Box data.  Amazon is at the helm of the overdrive in the e-commerce industry. Living proof of […]

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Boosting Business Intelligence with Managed Data Extraction

Did you know that Lotte, a South Korean conglomerate increased their sales up to $10 million thanks to Business Intelligence? Business Intelligence is the process of collecting, analyzing, and presenting raw data that is transformed into meaningful insights. It involves methodologies that ultimately aid the business in making strategic and actionable data-driven decisions. For a […]

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E-commerce in Overdrive: Unleash the Power of Cyber Monday 

In 2022, Cyber Monday accomplished a remarkable feat, propelling e-commerce sales to an impressive $11.3 billion—an extraordinary 5.8% increase, setting a new benchmark for online shopping. As the holiday season approaches, the global culture of bestowing gifts and celebration is also at an all-time high. For these times to be extra special, people look for […]

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Holiday Fleet Management: A Roadmap to Data-Driven Success in Car Rentals

In today’s car rental industry, data isn’t just an option; it’s the key to making pivotal decisions that drive success. The car rental industry is poised for a lucrative path ahead, with a projected revenue surge to $1.9 billion by 2027. The holiday season ignites a desire to explore and experience new places, which, in […]

The Significance of Black Friday for E-comm Brands 

Paving the way from Chaos to Clicks: The Black Friday Breakthrough in E-commerce.  As the holiday season draws near, there’s a day particularly special for shoppers and e-commerce brands — Black Friday.  This annual shopping extravaganza is more than just a date on the calendar; it’s a pivotal moment that kickstarts the festive shopping frenzy.  […]

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The Simplicity of Employing No-Code Web Scraping

Unlock the Power of No-Code Web Scraping: Transform Your Business with Data-Driven Success. Learn how web scraping and external data providers can revolutionize your industry. Explore real-world examples and discover the simplicity of harnessing valuable data.

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Revving Up for E-commerce Success in Q4: Leverage Web Scraping

Navigate the E-commerce Landscape: Uncover Insights Amidst Challenges. Explore our findings from rigorous analysis of Amazon datasets.

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Unlocking Business Insights: Scraping Crunchbase for Valuable Data

Crunchbase is a goldmine for anyone seeking key business data. Learn about the benefits of scraping data from the platform, and the processes involved

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Drive Success with Car Rental Data Extraction

Tap into the capabilities of car rental data extraction with Grepsr. Outperform competitors, fine-tune fleet management, and just do more.

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The Web Scraping Dilemma: Cloud vs. Local Data Extraction

Discover the key differences between cloud and local data extraction methods. Learn how Grepsr can be your guiding star in the world of web scraping.

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The Power of Web Scraping: Enriching POI Datasets

Discover how web scraping is revolutionizing the extraction and enrichment of POI data, ensuring accuracy and timeliness

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Choosing the Right External Data Provider

Elevate your data game with Grepsr, your trusted external data provider for web data excellence and data-driven success.

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Customer Sentiment Analysis and the Role of Web Scraping

Web scraping is indispensable for any Customer Sentiment Analysis Project. Learn how you can leverage web scraping to your advantage.

Mastering Data Visualization in Python with Grepsr’s Data

In a world where data reigns supreme, the ability to make sense of the overwhelming volume of information is nothing short of a superpower. Harnessing the power of data visualization in Python is a superpower in itself. From interactive charts and graphs to immersive dashboards, visualization helps businesses and individuals gain insights from data.  But […]

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Unlocking Growth Opportunities: How Grepsr’s SERP Scraping Can Transform Your Business

Elevate your SEO strategy in the USA market with Grepsr’s SERP scraping. Discover the power of extracting data from Google & Bing SERPs.

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Harnessing POI Insights: The Web Scraping Advantage

Actionable insights from one of Grepsr’s POI data projects

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Beyond Words: How Scraping Google Images Enriches POI Data

Unveiling the power of visual context for immersive location and search experiences

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Extracting Data from Websites to Excel: Web Scraping to Excel

Web scraping and Excel go hand in hand. After extracting the data from the web, you can then organize this data in Excel to capture actionable insights. The internet, by far, is the biggest source of information and data. Juggling through multiple sites to analyze data can be quite irksome. If you are analyzing vast […]

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A Comprehensive Glossary of Terms for Web Scraping

Web scraping has become an essential tool for extracting data from websites in various industries.  However, understanding the terminology associated with web scraping can sometimes be challenging. In this blog post, we provide you with a comprehensive glossary of terms that will definitely guide you to navigate the world of web scraping easily.  Whether you […]

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Top Six E-commerce Datasets: Web Scraping Use Cases  

The irreversible rise of e-commerce has been a similar phenomenon around the world. In 1998, the entirety of the e-commerce market stood at just $5 billion. During the pandemic, as people were locked indoors, e-commerce boomed, increasing by 43%. In 2020, the number had reached $815.5 billion. The biggest competition to Amazon is not Walmart […]

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Five Reasons Why You Need an External Data Provider

Web data extraction of large datasets is almost impossible with in-house capabilities. Learn why you need an external data provider.

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Analyzing US Job Postings Data to Understand Job Market & Economy

Leveraging one of Grepsr’s job postings data projects to gather insights — the hottest industries and employers, including working conditions

Web Scraping for Lead Generation: Open a Portal to Sales

Reaching out to leads and converting them into customers doesn’t have to be a shot in the dark. Web scraping can help you get access to high-quality leads databases and scale your lead generation process.

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Web Scraping: An Unlikely Data Solution

Data has now become something of a currency in the twenty-first century. But, when you think of data, does web scraping come to your mind?  We’re here to tell you it should.

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Data QA with Python: Ensuring Top-Notch Quality

Find out how you can perform data QA with Python. Data refinement is a big headache for data scientists and data analysts. As we’ve mentioned time and again, most data practitioners spend 50 to 80 percent of their time refining data. To get over this hurdle, we have various systems in place to ensure the […]

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Zero-in on Your Real Estate Prospects with Data

Big Data technologies make real estate prospecting more credible and effective by giving you access to real-time web data. You can use web scraping to gather actionable web data and analyze the real estate market environment on a city block level.

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Web Scraping with Python: A How-To Guide

Most businesses (and people) today more or less understand the implications of data on their business. ERP systems enable companies to crunch their internal data and make decisions accordingly. Which would have been enough by and itself if the creation of web data did not rise exponentially as we speak. Some sources estimate it to […]

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Know Your Data Quality Metrics With Grepsr

The importance of data quality cannot be overstated. One wrong entry and the corruption will spread without exception. The best way to counter this threat is to set up effective data quality metrics. 

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How to Perform Web Scraping with PHP

In this tutorial, you will learn what web scraping is and how you can do it using PHP. We will extract the top 250 highest-rated IMDB movies using PHP. By the end of this article, you will have sound knowledge to perform web scraping with PHP and understand the limitation of large-scale data acquisition and […]

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Price Monitoring with Data in the Time of Inflation

You can face uncertain times and come out on top with the right pricing strategy. Price monitoring gives you actionable insights into the changing e-com market. When you need to monitor pricing at scale though, you will inadvertently turn to data extraction sooner or later.

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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

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Looking at the Bigger Picture: Grepsr’s 2022

If there’s one word that best describes Grepsr’s 2022, it would be introspection. We sieved through our processes and retained what works, and discarded what doesn’t, to make room for improvement and growth.

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Press Release: Grepsr joins Data Commerce Cloud (DCC) to meet global need for actionable, on-demand DaaS solutions

Dubai, UAE / Berlin, Germany. 1 December 2022 – Grepsr, provider of custom web-scraped data, has become a Premium Partner of Datarade’s Data Commerce Cloud™, the platform which makes data commerce easy. Grepsr’s data products are now available to buy on Datarade Marketplace and other DCC sales channels. Grepsr processes 500M+ records, parses 10K+ web sources, and extracts data […]

An Overlooked Insights Mine: Job Postings Data

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a whopping 10.7 million job openings in the last business days of September 2022! This makes one thing pretty clear: the abundance of job postings data on the web presents a fertile ground for businesses to experiment from a wide range of industries. Whether you own a job […]

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 an hour learning/configuring XPaths and RegEx, you know how annoying web scraping can get. Even if you do manage to pull the data, it takes way more time to structure it than to make the […]

Data is Indispensable to Dropshipping. Here’s Why

Take your dropshipping business to new heights with actionable insights derived from up-to-date high-quality data.

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Measuring Share of Voice: Use Data to Track the Ultimate Metric

Gain maximum visibility on e-commerce platforms by tracking your share of voice with data

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Leveling the Playing Field: MAP Monitoring with Data

In an ideal world, brands would put a fair price cap on their products, which would then be followed religiously by retailers throughout the internet. It would create a superior brand reputation and generate satisfied customers who keep coming back to buy similar products from them. The consumer would have no reservations about buying a […]

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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 the dots.

Top Ten Applications of E-Commerce Data Extraction

The best ways to leverage e-commerce data to grow your brand

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Enabling Market Expansion: Data Refinement at Grepsr

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

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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 in the data lifecycle? Even when we include other steps like data extraction, data analysis, and data visualization? We’ve talked at length about the importance of data for your business. The only thing we’ve emphasized […]

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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 holidays.

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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 and reveal some of the biggest data facts it had to offer. Disclaimer: The creation and applications of data continue to skyrocket, as expected! Here are a few stats you might find interesting from TechJury: […]

Grepsr’s 2021 — A Year in Review

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

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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 carriers usually followed the same schedules. This ensured the arrival of inventory in time, replenishment of stores, and constant operation of the factories. With the surge in COVID-19 cases around the world, the schedule reliability […]

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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 myriad applications of Point Of Interest Data and explain why it is, in every sense of the word, a sleeping giant.

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Data Analysis: Five Steps to Superior Data

This is one piece of a three-part series that looks at the various data analysis methods, techniques, and essential steps to ensure its superiority. According to Wikipedia, data analysis is a process within data science of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful insights, informing conclusions, and supporting decision-making. Data […]

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 superior data analysis. The majority of leaders from high-performing businesses attribute their success to data analytics. According to a survey done by McKinsey & Company, respondents from these companies are three times more likely to […]

Make Data Make Sense: Most-Used Techniques in Data Analysis

This is one piece of a three-part series that looks at the various methods, techniques, and essential steps to superior data analysis.

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Applications of Data Normalization in Retail & E-Commerce

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

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A Smarter MO for Data-Driven Businesses

Data is key to future-proofing your brand. Web scraping is the first step towards achieving long-term data-driven business success.

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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 many things we experience as adults. An old folk tale from India is one of those stories. It goes something like this: A group of blind men goes to an elephant to find out its […]

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Perfecting the 1:10:100 Rule in Data Quality

Never let bad data hurt your brand reputation again — get Grepsr’s expertise to ensure the highest data quality

Grepsr named Category Leader for ‘Data Management Software’

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

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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 concepts compared to lengthy texts and paragraphs. Maps and graphs have existed since the 17th century as a means of visualizing data. It was in the mid-1800s that the world saw one the first examples […]

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What is Data Normalization & Why Enterprises Need it

In the current era of big data, every successful business collects and analyzes vast amounts of data on a daily basis. All of their major decisions are based on the insights gathered from this analysis, for which quality data is the foundation. One of the most important characteristics of quality data is its consistency, which […]

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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 to their holiday experience.

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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 is how search engines are able to gather and display hundreds of thousands of results instantaneously. And also how companies build databases, develop marketing strategies, generate leads, and so on. While its potentials are immense, […]

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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 is important for brands to see what kinds of photos are turning prospects into customers. On the other side, customers go through numerous products and images before settling on a final choice. Similarly, analysts browse […]

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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.

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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 extraction business. In addition to the highly responsive and easy-to-communicate customer service, we pride ourselves in being able to offer the most reliable and quality data, at scale and on time, every single time. QA […]

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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.

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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 worldwide in recent years are charting their course based on what data is telling them. With such reliance, it is imperative that the data you’re working with is of the highest quality. Grepsr provides data […]

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 the usefulness and potential of big data, and migrating towards data-driven decision-making. As a result, there’s been a huge rise in demand in recent years for tools and services offering data for businesses via Data […]

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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 humble online bookstore. With its presence and influence increasing in more countries, there’s huge demands for its inventory data from various industry verticals. Almost all of the time, this data is acquired via web scraping […]

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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.

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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 & Data Quality Assessment

According to Charles Babbage, one of the major inventors of computer technology, “Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.” Babbage lived in the 19th century when the world had not yet fully realized the importance of data — at least not in the commercial sense. Had Babbage been […]

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

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)

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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 web scraping browser extension, you may get an error message sometimes that says “The data is unstructured. Please try again.” at the bottom-right corner of the screen. Cause The main reason this happens is that the selected fields are located in different containers within the website’s HTML code. This […]

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 integrated Google Sign-In to make signing up and signing in simpler, in addition to the regular sign up form option. There’s recently been some confusions regarding the Google Sign-In option, which we’ve tried to address […]

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:

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 New Year! We look forward to your continued love and support in the new year and beyond. Here’s a look back at some of Grepsr’s highlights in 2018. New Product In addition to our existing […]

Data Retention in Grepsr

New policy announcement

Automate Future Crawls Using Scheduler

Configure and enable schedules to automate future crawls

Data Delivery via Email

Have your Grepsr files automatically delivered by email

Data Delivery via Dropbox

Have your Grepsr files synced automatically to your Dropbox

Data Delivery via FTP

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

Data Delivery via Webhooks

Get notified as soon as your Grepsr data is ready

Data Delivery via Google Drive

Have your Grepsr files synced automatically to your Google Drive

Data Delivery via Amazon S3

Have your Grepsr files synced automatically to your Amazon S3 bucket

Data Delivery via Box

Have your Grepsr files synced automatically to your Box account

Data Delivery via File Feed

Under File Feed, there are two URLs — marked ‘Latest’ and ‘All’. Here’s a brief demo:

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 websites that are poorly structured, where data fields are hidden, and so on. Here we give you a simple demonstration on how you can get data from these complex websites via our custom platform — Grepsr Concierge. […]

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 tune or not so much.

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 you get back partial or no data at all.

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 at the top of the Grepsr data extraction platform. Previously, all projects would be listed in one place. Now, to make things simpler and more streamlined, we’ve separated the app into two parts based on […]

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 have a quick look at data feeds and endpoints[*]. Your scraped data’s Endpoint API is the final stop it makes in its journey— starting from the host website, then to your Grepsr account via our crawler, and […]

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 inquiring about data delivery on the app, then this blog is for you! Once you’ve set up your project and the app starts to extract your data, depending on the volume of data requested, it might […]

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 for Chrome, to do the scraping. If you haven’t tried it yet, why haven’t you? It’s fun and easy to use! Although Grepsr for Chrome is already a powerful scraping tool, there might still be a few […]

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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’s extension, and you’re receiving their inventory listings as a CSV file regularly. Now you need to periodically monitor the data for changes on the vendors’ side — new additions, removals, price changes, etc. While your website automatically updates all this information when you […]

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 million new businesses start every year around the world, while a similar number also fold. What sets successful firms apart are the innovations and resources they utilize that help them stay healthy and relevant. Grepsr […]

How to Use Grepsr Browser Tool 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 with a beta launch of Chrome extension to fill the gap that Kimono Labs, a widely popular scraping tool, left since it’s closure. Now after a year of iteration on both the UI and UX along with shipping […]

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 also received tons of feature requests (keep ’em coming!), so we thought we’d share couple of our favorites that have most recently made it into Grepsr for Chrome. Infinite Scrolling and Enhanced Pagination Support From […]

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, but we’re ramping up our editorial operation. Over the next few months you’ll see more posts, more announcements and analysis, more writing, and even new forms of content here. We’re still hammering out all the […]

Introducing the All New Grepsr

Chrome Extension, APIs, Better Support & Much More

Importance of Web Scraping 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 articles published by media or tech companies around the world.

FIVE Essential Questions for Assessing your Big Data Deployment Readiness

Big Data isn’t just a big buzzword. Nor is it merely a business ritual. Ask yourself these 5 essential questions to know if you business is ready for data-driven transformation in the Big Data era

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10 Digital Marketing Trends that will Impact Your Business

During the last few years, SoLoMo (social, local, and mobile) have remained the defining trend in marketing, and data has played a crucial role in their advancement. Moving forward, these trends will continue penetrating deeper and expanding wider in the global market. Hence data integration will be more pervasive. Remarkably, new AdTechs like Internet of […]

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 their customers. They want their stores and services to be easily found and accessed. Moreover, they are extensively using location data to pursue their customers where they are and to persuade them to buy their […]

Data Extraction for BI: Picking the Right Services is Crucial

Finding the appropriate data warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI) platforms that can understand and address your business concerns, priorities, and needs is a daunting task. Specifically, the ones that can have cohesive approaches in generating and deploying your data

Seven Key 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 use of Big Data, and the whole fabric of life has become increasingly data driven. Here is a brief review of 7 major areas which have gone through massive transformations driven by data: Business Business enterprises […]

Data Mining to Predict, Track and Contain the Ebola Outbreak

One of the most diverse continents on earth, Africa astounds the world with its vast savannas, great deserts, ancient architecture and modern cities. But Africa also has its share of tragedies and woes. First identified in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola River in 1976, Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, a deadly zoonotic disease caused by the Ebola […]

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 the launching of Grepsr Online Data Store this week. We believe that, with its integrated and on-demand data solutions, our online data store will be a favorite service among the business people, researchers, planners and many […]

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. While digitization of the facilities of everyday use has given rise to datafication, the process of datafication has produced a byproduct known as big data, which is regarded as a new oil of the digital […]

Maximizing the Benefits of Location Information Data: A Case Study

A good amount of location information with geospatial details is vital for developing and carrying out business plans Advantages of Location Information Data Obtaining and integrating location information data into the day-to-day business operation policies and practices are the vital tasks in business and marketing. A good amount of data with geospatial details helps businesses […]

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 services to our customers in the highly competitive rates. Our strong base–with cutting-edge technologies and advanced infrastructure–in Kathmandu and our maturing technical expertise in the area have helped us to compete with the top tire […]

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. Apparently, there is no area of human interest where you cannot achieve agility, efficiency, and better outcome by deploying data science. Business, astronomy, neuroscience and you name it. Data had never been generated with such […]

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How are Data Sharing Technologies 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 changes that are just around the corner

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 our working hours on the digital screens, either generating or aggregating digital data. Internet, what would have seemed something unimaginable only a few decades ago, has become an essential part of our daily businesses. […]

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 analytics or any other kind of data-driven analytics, for that matter

Big Data & 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 sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software. “Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else […]

Data Science in Healthcare Revolution

Soon, wearable biomedical sensors are going to be the new gadgets of the post-smartphone era. They will keep track of your body temperature, blood pressure, blood glucose level, respiratory rate, heart rate, and everything else you need to know about your body. More importantly, they will communicate with your personal physician, and update their EHR […]

Big Data is Redefining News & Journalism

If digital data were something physical, it would have massively altered the shape of our world, probably, with new data mountains rising every hour. Whether you browse the web or flip pages of print media, you are sure to stumble upon some news about big data, all the while feeding the web with your digital […]

Web Scraping: Why is Service Better Option than Software?

Data Discovery Holds the Future An overwhelming proportion of data that businesses use for the purpose of developing business insights in decision-making is derived from the internet, and the tendency to depend on data-informed insights is expected to become a more conspicuous mainstream practice with the expansion of Internet of Things. The futuristic projections claim […]

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 an enriching experience for us to operate our services from the city of Kathmandu with its unique art, architecture, and cultural life. We have been benefited by the experience of working with various kinds of […]

Location Analytics: ‘Where’ is the Knowledge of Data

Digital Technology and Rediscovery of Geography A substantial amount of data that Grepsr processes and provides to its business partners worldwide contains location-specific information. According to IDC, an American data research firm, 80% of data collected by organizations has location element, and according to ABI Research, location analytics market will rise up to $9 billion by […]

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 and business arenas suggest its importance in our time. No wonder, it is used as a household name in the business world. Data mining, in fact, is an inevitable consequence of all the technological innovations […]

Leverage Grepsr to Turn Data into Asset

Have you ever been overwhelmed or even inundated by a sheer amount of data you have to handle every day? Handling too much of data can be a painstaking job in the age that has seen an enormous surge in digitization, quantification, and datafication of information. Today, you have to be equipped with data no […]

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 able to maintain a steady progress in this year. We achieved a significant growth in terms of users, orders, and revenues, which was many times larger than 2012. During 2013, we managed to go global, […]

Staying ahead with Automated Price Comparison

Keeping an eye on a competitor’s data and pricing strategy gives you an edge, and improve your foothold in the market.

Web Scraping vs API

Every system you come across today has an API already developed for their customers or it is at least in their bucket list. While APIs are great if you really need to interact with the system but if you are only looking to extract data from the website, web scraping is a much better option. […]

Using Browser Plugins

We have browser plugins for all major browsers to help you easily capture screenshots. Browser plugins are especially useful if you need to take screenshot of pages that are behind login screens or are difficult to capture with Grepsr’s on-site screen shot capture feature. In this video we will show you how to install and […]

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 crawled data directly to your system via HTTP callbacks. This functionality requires technical knowledge. – On your project page, click on the Data delivery tab. – In the HTTP Callback section, enter the direct URL […]

Data Sync with FTP

An updated version of this article is available here. In this video we will show you how you can sync the crawled data directly to your FTP servers. – On your project page, click on the Data delivery tab. – In the FTP section, enter the your FTP host, port and your login credentials. – […]

Data Sync with Dropbox

An updated version of this article is available here. In this video we will show you how you can sync the crawled data to your Dropbox folder. – On your project page, click on the Data delivery tab. – In the Dropbox section, click on “Authorize with Dropbox” to link your Dropbox account. – You […]

Data Delivery via Email

An updated version of this article is available here. In this video we will show you how to receive the crawled data automatically via email. – On your project page, click on the Data delivery tab. – In the email section, enter the email where you would like to receive the data. You may also […]

Scheduling Web Crawlers

In this video we will show you how to schedule your web crawlers to run automatically. – On your project page, click on the Scheduling tab. – Here you can schedule the start date and time for the web crawler to run. – Choose how often the web crawler will run. Depending on your user […]

Grepsr – How it Works

This video will show you how Grepsr works. Watch the video and get started with your first project at Grepsr today! About Grepsr With more than a decade of experience in overcoming challenges to extract data from all sorts of web sources, Grepsr is your perfect solution for the most reliable and quality data in […]

Search your Data

In this video we will show you how you can perform a search on the crawled data. This functionality is only available to users depending on the user level. On your project page, you will see a search option on the right, just above the data. To do a simple search, you can choose which […]

Mark & Tag Requirements

In this video we will show you how to explain your requirements visually by marking them on screenshots. If you have problems taking screenshots, please use our browser plugins. About Grepsr With more than a decade of experience in overcoming challenges to extract data from all sorts of web sources, Grepsr is your perfect solution […]

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 up-to-date with what’s happening, but we’ve silently been working on a few things behind the scenes. We are a bootstrapped startup with a small but efficient team. Sometimes we get so consumed with daily operations […]

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 experts from the Asian tech industry at the event. We shared the stage with 15 other start-ups who pitched their product in front of a big crowd – it was an amazing experience! The reception […]

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 service, with killer software that runs behind the scenes! 🙂 Also, lot of our customers ask us, why go for a Web Crawling Service over a Web Crawling Software? The answer is pretty straight forward. […]

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 new data is available. The whole idea behind this feature is to automate our data delivery process. It would really be tedious if you have to login to your grepsr account everyday to check if […]

Why is Web Crawling important?

Data lies in the heart of any business, even more if it is technology-related. With all the open standards of today, like RSS feeds or APIs, sharing data across systems has become much easier than it ever was. For example, if you want to read today’s financial news directly from your email inbox, you could […]

SSL enabled in Grepsr

At Grepsr, we are committed towards the security and privacy of your data. We have enabled SSL on our application today. What does this mean to you as a user? Getting the SSL enabled on our platform is only the beginning. Grepsr will continue to improve our services, and help our customers become more efficient! […]

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 the following. Create a new FTP account for Grepsr – highly encourage you to NOT use the same FTP account that you use for your website etc. Preferably, make sure Grepsr can write to the […]

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 FTP accounts! So, from now on whenever Grepsr extracts your data from the source, it will automatically upload the data in PDF, XLS and XML formats to your DropBox (and/or FTP) account. The data will […]

Managed Data Extraction Service

Grepsr is what we like to call, “Managed Data Extraction Service”. Here are some of the reasons why we call it “managed”: We let you focus on your business and use the data — worrying about technical details of extraction is our job, and we will do it for you. We let you describe your […]

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 Service (SaaS) products for website data extraction. So what does this mean for the customers? Cheaper costs – you pay a flat monthly fee no matter how big or small your extraction needs are. Fully […]

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