Chapter 22: Tmall & Taobao Product Scraper Using Keywords to Fetch Item Data
The COVID-19 virus hit China first and hard, but China is the fastest recovering country worldwide. Evergrand and electricity events are still creating a blurry frontpath in China. But it’s a fact that China’s economy grew by a blistering 18.3% in the first quarter of 2021 compared to 2020. A country with more than 450 million middle class citizens, Tmall and Taobao product data insight basically have become a lighthouse for sellers who are doing business in China, or are going to enter and capture some percentages of this pie.
Chapter 24: Linkedin Scraper & Bot, Automate Adding Connections and Messaging
Linkedin, which is the professional networking platform, recently announced that the China version of Linkedin will sunset later this year. It’s due to a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirement. It will launch the global standalone platform called InJobs in China. But the platform will not include a social media feed or the ability to share posts or articles. It’s what it is. Linkedin business networking is still very valuable to users, no matter whether Chinese need to use VPN to login their profiles, or inJob still has the feature of people search.
Chapter 25: Build a Python GUI App with Tkinter
UI and UX Marketing integrates the sales, order, and reporting processes in a single user interface. This straightforward interface makes the complicated simple by using Python GUI App. This concept and mindset are not only applied to customer communication and engagement. But also UI and UX marketing is not only for customers. Before marketing things launch, one of the most important sections is intelligent research and setting up an automation process. Don’t torture yourself by only using a raw script. You and your fellows can have a better Python graphic user interface.
Chapter 26: Create a Shopify Bot Web Application Using Flask and Heroku
1.75 million merchants sell using the Shopify platform. And the company until now has a market cap of US$212.08 Billion. This makes Shopify become the most valuable company by market cap worldwide. Your competitor is using Shopify and you are curious what their activities are on-going, that includes pricing of course. Shopify Bot can be put in a more friendly and shareable format, instead of only using a raw script like Python Tutorial 10. So this is why Flask and Heroku today.
Chapter 29 – Build an Indiegogo Bot for Scraping Most Crowdfunded Projects
Indiegogo is an online crowdfunding platform that brings Users together to support crowdfunding campaigns featuring innovative products, creative design, and inspired ventures. It allows brands to launch and seek to raise funds for their own Campaigns and to contribute to the Campaigns of others. Campaign Owners can offer Perks to Contributors in thanks for the Contributors’ donation of funds.So do you want to consolidate all most funded projects in different sectors and categories by just spending 10 seconds. This is why this article is about today.
Chapter 30: TikTok Bot Scrapes Top Ranking Content, Profiles & Automates Sending Messages
It was unbelievable how one app under two names has become the fastest growing social media application. They are respectively TikTok for global audiences, and Douyinfor China. In fact, TikTok amassed over 3 billion downloads and penetrated one-third of all social media users on this planet in less than four short years. This number took Facebook and Instagram almost a decade. If we look into these two platforms, it makes sense why it is growing so fast. Content is the king and this piece talks how to fast scrape the top profiles, best performing videos, meanwhile implement the automatic communication
Chapter 31 – Build a Zhihu Bot & Scraper for Grabbing Top and Trending Q&A, Blogger Content
Zhihu is one of the most popular social communities in China, and also foreign users are also accessible to this platform. Finding the right influencers, KOCs in Zhihu and seeding the content there are very helpful to build brand awareness and educate target cusotmers. The question is how to scably scrape the profiles without paying additional fees? This article can tell.
Chapter 32: ContactOut Bot for Scraping Emails and Linkedin Profiles
Inbound and outreach marketing are a pair of close partners in the whole journey of lead and demand generation. This portfolio always creates the best ROI if you can fully well make them work together in the lead generation strategy. However, if we break down the outreach workflow, data collection and verification are perceptive which requires lots of manual work or a big amount of money investment. In fact, the saying is true, but it has more ways to go instead of having only one option. And ContactOut bot indeed can increase the efficiency and facilitate the whole process.
Chapter 27: Build a Kickstarter Bot to Fetch Top and Trending Crowdfunding Product Data
Innovation and creativity ahead often are driven by capital. So as an eCommerce player in your space, it’s helpful and useful to notice the capital flow or projects paid attention to by the investors. There are many crowdfunding platforms out there, and frankly, there are many future stars that you might not be able to find on Amazon. But this is something we might be more interested in, for spotting a potentially profitable project. The question is how to automate collecting intelligent insights. So this is why this piece.
Chapter 28 – Build the Comparable Company Analysis Bot Using Easy2Digital APIs
Data intelligence is not a term to show off how you are good at using data to make right decisions. I believe nobody can say we have a right stock investment decision with 100% correct prediction. Data intelligence is like an advisor giving you a way to see the big picture and inspire you with new ideas, and be along with you in the critical thinking and analysis journey. The question is how to scably and automatically collect and update the data for CCA. This is what the article is about today – FMP Bot using FMP API
Chapter 33: Build an eCommerce Profit Margin Calculator Using OOP
Business is essentially a calculation. Based on the calculations that integrate with external and internal factors, people can stand on a giant shoulder and evaluate the current status and predict a more precise future. It’s not 100% correct, as the change is beyond the plan. However, it ensures you are indeed on the way to the goal instead of going the wrong way. The goal here is profitable whatever strategies you are implementing. And in the eCommerce space, SKU profit margin calculation is applicable as well.
Chapter 34: Twitter Bot for Scraping Most Popular Topics and Influencer Profiles
Compared to Instagram and TikTok, Twitter indeed is a niche social media channel which is typically popular in some countries. You might hear Twitter bootstrap, which is one of the most popular web and app CSS frameworks. As a businessman, investor and marketer, you can’t miss out Twitter content sight and sentiment analysis is very helpful and powerful. It’s all because of the essential features of the platform, such as instant news, politicians, and professional points of view.
Chapter 35: Social Media Sentiment Analysis Using Python, Twitter, and Easy2Digital APIs
Regarding a full scope of intelligent business data dashboard, organic traffic, sales number, and top product GMV from worldwide are of course indispensable. It might have potential risk if you ignore what people are talking about your business, and what the sentiment is when people mention your brand. In fact, there are many valuable channels that could give you hints and signals, such as Reddit, social media (Facebook, Instagram, etc), the microblogging arena of Twitter.
Chapter 36: Build an NPV Calculator in eCommerce Business Space Using Python
Global stock market is just like a roller coaster now, and if you are the passenger in the game, you might have a true feeling how exciting it is. Definitely we have alternatives out there, such as cryptocurrency, gold, etc. And private equity investment must be one of the options and eCommerce is a hot spotlight space. You can calculate the gold price by observing the historical trend and worldwide political, economic events. For the eCommerce business valuation, you can also have a calculator.
Chapter 37 – Brand Info Bot for Scraping Brand Web Domains with Python and Easy2Digital APIs
An objective-oriented scraping project consists of many standalone Python bot scripts which can connect and function together. One of the most useful data used to scrape potential leads’ data must be the brand web domains. Basically we learn and know a brand from there. The question is how we are able to automatically grab in bulk instead of using Google search. This article tells how to make a bot with Python, Clearbit and Sqlite3
Chapter 38 – Build a CLV Calculator of SaaS, Subscription & Membership Plan Using Python, OOP
There is a saying “Starting a business is difficult and maintaining a business is even more difficult”. The truth is the competition indeed is getting more and more fierce along with more players joining the game and competing with you. New customer acquisition costs are definitely increasing, so the question is how to sustainably defend your business and maintain the customer loyal to your product and service. It’s for the purpose of maintaining business competition cutting-edge at the end and avoiding losing profit or even losing money. Understanding your customer lifetime value and calculating, getting a right number to refer is vital.
Chapter 43: Pinterest Scraper for Grabbing the SERP content and profiles using Keywords
Previously, the Pinterest bot scraped thousands of Pinterest profiles using a few lines of code. And first thing first we need to scrape those profiles. What’s more, people need quality and influencers’ content and profile. So this is what the article is about.
Chapter 44: Build an eBay Bot to Scrape Trending Deals, Products, and Brands
eBay has become one of the most popular online marketplaces for sellers to market and sell their goods today and is certainly an attractive and good option for an ecommerce venture. With this context and platform uniqueness, the trending deals reflect a vital hint of sales opportunities and help you to craft the cross border eCommerce strategies
Chapter 39 – Alibaba Bot for Scraping Product Price, MOQ, and Supplier Profiles
Stable and sustainable contribution from supply sides to any eCommerce business is a vital thing to succeed. It’s a tough task of course, so on and off identifying the potential suppliers is a must-have to-do-item. It’s not just for diversifying the suppliers, but also it’s a tip to optimize the landed cost and COGS. The question is how to save time to complete this task. Alibaba bot is the answer for you.
Chapter 40 – Utilize Youtube Bots to Scrape Videos, Profiles, and Contacts Using Easy2Digital APIs and Youtube API
Automatic chain effect supplier is a nice phrase to describe the youtube data source. Most popular video content in SERP, active and famous Youtube channels, and the contact points such as email, website and social channels are in place as long as the youtubers add on. Basically people are able to grab content ideas, youtuber profile and automate outreach from every time of youtube bot scraping command.
Chapter 41: Build a Keyword Data Estimator Scrape Search Engine Keyword Volume, CPC Using Easy2Digital APIs and Python
Keyword volume and CPC are very familiar terms as long as you are running digital marketing campaigns and doing performance prediction. I believe it’s a critical signal to deploy content, budgeting between organic and paid media ads, and also evaluate a business investment. It’s because it represents the low funnel opportunities in a way.
However, it’s a pity in terms of keyword volume and CPC research that there are 3 challenges you might have experienced – Free lunch is not free, people manually input and download, and 3rd party software is experienced. So this article is a method to resolve this issue.
Chapter 42 – Pinterest Bot for Scraping Web URLs, Emails, and Automating Messages
A standalone bot might not be possible to finish an object-driven task like the influencer outreach, lead demand generation. It’s because of the difficulties to scrape a full stack of dataset from one standalone platform. Normally you need to consolidate data from different platforms for one object. Pinterest can provide you with emails, social messenger and web URLs in one place. It must be one of the most important parts integrated with your robotic processing automation script, as supporting the data source.
Chapter 45: Meta Ads Campaign Creation and Optimization Using Facebook Business, Graph, and Easy2Digital APIs
Along with user data privacy being cared for and protected more than ever, Meta has pledged to build an advertising ecosystem that relies on fewer data. It looks like the social media giant looks to push forward with its privacy agenda. Recently Meta has announced more removal of Facebook Ads audience targeting options across four categories. Plus the stress and impact from industrial players like iOS upgrade, I believe platform players just would have more new changes that create more challenges for marketers to reach out to customers accurately like before.
However, the fact is platforms are shifting the data protection liability to the brands and marketers. For continuing monetizing the inventory without user privacy limitations, platforms are providing more mature marketing APIs for brands to adopt and leverage to reach out to target audiences even much better than before. And the brands and marketers build the target feature themselves at this time. This article is about how to leverage Meta APIs to create and update your Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp ads.
Chapter 46: Data Converters to convert CSV to SQL, SQL to CSV, Google Sheets to SQL
Data converters help convert data inventory between different formats into an expected format you like to use, such as SQL, CSV, JSON, XML, etc. If you are looking for ways to monetize data by selling contactable data like B2B prospects through an API or a SaaS, I believe this piece can help manage your data inventory in SQL and CSV.