From travel sites to e-commerce, financial markets, and beyond, there is an endless supply of information from publicly available websites and databases that can be aggregated and repurposed on your own site. And it can all be done automatically.
Publish that’s always up-to-date.
The public databases you pull information from may be updated daily, hourly, or even by the minute. If you want to aggregate and republish this data, you have two options: have an employee review the sites multiple times per day while becoming an expert in copy/paste, or let a digital worker handle the entire process for you.
When you automate the process, you know that you will have the most up-to-date information on your site while sparing your team from the headaches that come with the manual work.
Scrape, aggregate, analyze, publish, repeat.
Providing insightful analysis requires current and accurate data. Automatically scraping raw data from publicly available websites gives you access to the most up-to-date information in a format that you can use. There are countless uses of web scraping for data aggregation, but a few common examples include:
- Pull statistics from government websites in different regions to make comparisons and identify trends.
- Publish the latest price information and product availability across multiple e-commerce sites.
- Check availability for flights, hotels, cars, and tours from travel sites in real time.
Whether you pull data from a single source to analyze and republish it, or you aggregate data from multiple sites for comparison and analysis, letting digital workers handle the heavy lifting will save you countless hours.
How web scraping and data aggregation automation works.
Once the robots are built, they go to work scraping, analyzing, and publishing the data for you. While this example uses RabbitMQ, Robocorp’s RPA technology can be paired with the database or platform of your choice.
Crawl websites for updated data
The bots can be scheduled to visit specific sites at a certain day and tiThe bots can be scheduled to visit specific sites as often as you choose.
Extract raw data
From multiple sources in its original format.
Transfer data
The bots write the raw data into the database or spreadsheet of your choice.
Sort and analyze data
Identify trends, compare time periods, and provide other valuable analysis of the data.
Publish final data
Push the data live on your website through RabbitMQ or other database.