Data Parsing: The Basic, the Easy, and the Difficult | Episode 3

In the #3 episode of OxyCast, the host, Augustinas Kalvis, and a special guest – Povilas Kudriavcevas (both are Software Engineers at Oxylabs), will discuss data parsing basics and go through the easy and the difficult parts of the process. Augustinas and Povilas will also explain how to parse an item and speculate what may be the future of data parsing.*

In this podcast episode, you’ll learn:

• What the process of parsing an item is like
• Writing a good selector
• How to monitor a parser
• Practices of testing a parser
• Making the parser scalable
• How to handle constant website layout changes

*Information provided in this episode is based on our clients’ use of Oxylabs’ innovative solutions and tools for scraping publicly available data.

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