How to Scrape in Another Language or Location For Market Research

Entering a new market is nerve-racking with a global downturn looming.?Despite warnings surfacing in early 2022, the feared recession is yet to materialize.???

While you can't stall growth on events you cannot foresee, you can double down on research to better analyze risk and barriers to entry. So, if you're thinking of breaking into a new market, use web scraping to accelerate the process.

?? New to web scraping??Download our beginner-friendly?web scraping guide [PDF]?and learn how to collect and use publicly available data for research.

Extracting Localized Data Using ScraperAPI and Python

Collecting data in another language or location is complex. It requires you to use a series of tools, such as IP rotation systems and localized proxy pools, to mimic the behavior of a local searcher. But fortunately, with a web scraping API like ScraperAPI, you can activate "geotargeting" (50+ countries available).

??In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use localized IP pools to extract local data from?a marketplace serving over 20 countries in 10+ languages. [Code here]

We will also show you step-by-step how to:

? Analyze multilingual, multi-location data. For example:

• The type of dynamic content you're dealing with on each page
• How URLs react when showing different languages on the page

? Test CSS selectors to see if they're the same across all site versions

? Send out requests using a scraping API

? Build a parser to help with data extraction

? Collect scraped data in a structured format (JSON)

? Run this code with and without geotargeting

Find the detail and tutorial here

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