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Web Scraping Cadence 101: What Determines How Frequently You Can Crawl a Website?
What Is the Frequency We Can Run the Crawler? Crawler frequency (how often we collect the same data from the same sources) is one of the first decisions that determines cost, feasibility, and data quality in a web scraping program . In theory, you can run a crawler as often as you want. In practice, the “right” frequency is a balance between: How fast the underlying data changes : price, inventory, availability, promotions, fees How much risk you can tolerate : missing chang


How Ficstar Uses NLP and Cosine Similarity for Accurate Menu Price Matching
At Ficstar, we use a mix of three things to get the highest possible web data accuracy. We use NLP, plus some smart statistics, and finally, human checks to make sure everything is right. By combining the speed of machines with the careful eye of people, we make sure every piece of data is reliable. I`m going to walk you through the key steps of our process. These are the same steps we use to help our clients keep track of prices and stay competitive online.
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