Infrastructure & Data
Web Scraping & Data Extraction
Authorised web scraping and data extraction — structured data collection from sources you have the right to use, delivered in a format your systems can read.
Data extraction is straightforward to build and easy to get wrong legally. We start every project by establishing what the source actually permits — its terms of service, its robots.txt, and whether you have a relationship that grants access.
Where an official API exists we use it. Where it does not, and collection is permitted, we build extraction that is monitored and repaired rather than left to fail silently.
Problems this solves
If more than one of these sounds familiar, this is probably the right page.
- Someone spends hours a week copying data between websites and a spreadsheet
- Supplier catalogues arrive in a format nothing can read
- Price or availability information is needed more often than anyone can check it
- A one-off migration needs data out of a system with no export
Scope
What you get
- A written check of what the source permits before any collection starts
- Extraction built for the specific source and its structure
- Scheduling, where the data needs refreshing
- Cleaning and normalisation, so the output is actually usable
- Delivery as CSV, JSON, a database, or straight into your system
- Monitoring and repair when a source changes its layout
Outcome
What changes
- Data arrives in a usable shape without manual copying
- Collection is repeatable rather than a one-off favour
- You know what the source permits before anything runs
Process
How we deliver it
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01
Discuss
We work out what you need and whether this is the right service for it.
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Scope and quote
We write down what will be delivered, and quote for that.
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Build and review
You see the work in progress, not only at the end.
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Hand over and support
You get the finished work, the files, and someone to ask.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
Will you scrape any website we name?
No. We only collect from sources you own, sources that have given you permission, and genuinely public data whose terms allow it. We check the terms of service and robots.txt before starting, and we will say no when the answer is no.
Is an API better than scraping?
Almost always. Where a source offers an API we use it — it is more reliable and it is explicitly permitted.
What happens when the source changes?
Extraction breaks when a page layout changes. Ongoing collection should include monitoring and repair, and we price that as part of the work rather than as a surprise.
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Need Web Scraping & Data Extraction?
Tell us what you are trying to achieve and we will scope it honestly.