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Daily News & Article Data Collection from 24 Sites

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  The Client A US organisation running a media-intelligence function — the kind of operation that needs to know, every morning, what was published overnight across a defined set of sources that matter to its domain. Their source list was specific and mixed: 24 websites spanning mainstream news outlets, trade and industry publications, and community forums. Their need was equally specific: a clean, daily, structured feed of everything newly published, delivered in a consistent shape they could analyse, search, and route — regardless of how differently those 24 sites were built. The brief was, on its surface, one of the most common data requests in existence: "collect the articles from these sites, every day." Its difficulty — and the reason it's worth documenting — is that "these sites" spanned 24 completely different content architectures, and "clean" turned out to be doing enormous work in that sentence. The Challenge News and article extraction is de...
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Taobao Brand-Store Data Collection for an EU Client

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  The Client A Germany-based business with a brand-and-market- intelligence need pointed at one of the hardest data environments in the world: Taobao, the vast Chinese consumer marketplace. Their interest was focused — specific brand stores in the chocolate and personal-care (Dove) categories — and their reasons were the reasons European brands and distributors increasingly watch Chinese marketplaces: understanding how their products (and competitors') are listed, priced, and presented in China, monitoring cross-border and gray-market activity, and reading a market whose scale and velocity make it a bellwether. The requirement sounds narrow — data from particular stores for particular brands — and the narrowness was the point. But Taobao makes even narrow requirements technically demanding, which is exactly why the engagement is worth documenting. The Challenge Taobao is a different order of difficulty from Western marketplaces, on several axes at once: Language and encoding. Li...
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Scrape CVS, Walgreens and E-Pharmacy Drug Pricing Data

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  Introduction The healthcare and pharmaceutical industry increasingly depends on timely, structured, and reliable data to understand pricing, product availability, discounts, and market movements. Actowiz Solutions helped a healthcare-focused client build a comprehensive data collection solution covering pharmacy pricing, e-pharmacy listings, and supporting healthcare information. The project focused on Scrape CVS, Walgreens and E-Pharmacy Drug Pricing Data, enabling the client to compare medicine prices, monitor product changes, and strengthen competitive intelligence. Alongside pharmacy information, the solution incorporated doctor and clinic data to provide a broader view of the healthcare market and consumer-facing services. Through Healthcare & Pharma Data Scraping, information was transformed into structured datasets suitable for analytics, benchmarking, pricing research, and market intelligence. Automated extraction reduced the dependency on manual research while creati...
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