Case Studies

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International Data Scraping Episode

Welcome to the Ntrepid Podcast, Episode #3. My name is Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist for Ntrepid Corporation. In this episode, I will be talking a global perspective on information scraping. I have a problem with the phrase “The Internet”, because it implies that there is a “thing” out there, and that if we...

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Improving Data Harvesting

https://ntrepidcorp.com/assets/uploads/2017/06/Ntrepid_Podcast_1_Scraping.mp3 Welcome to the Ntrepid audio briefs: Issue Number 1. My name is Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist for Ntrepid Corporation. In this issue, I will be talking about collecting big data against resisting targets. Big data is the big buzzword right now, and rightly so. There’s really two kinds of big data...

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Overcome Big Data Web Scraping Obstacles

In this podcast I talk about collecting big data against resisting targets. Data harvesting from public websites often happens at a scale that quickly alerts the target and leads them to take countermeasures. I discuss the kinds of countermeasures they can take, and how best to avoid detection in the...