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Data Extraction and Data Feeds

At BotCode, we are experts in web data harvesting and delivery and we have years of experience in getting the web data that you need. Simply give us your requirements and you can sit back and relax – we do the development to collect the data you are looking for. Our team of engineers have been living and breathing web data extraction for over 5 years now and they are committed to working with you to outline a program that is best suited for your business.

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Data Services

Building Web Agents
Whether it's pulling pricing data or news stories, the process of accessing website data has been perfected by our Professional Data Services group. More importantly, our team has developed a streamlined process that will help you fulfill your data acquisition needs. Whether you take advantage of our hosted services or decide to work with our onsite platform, the Professional Data Services team is available to create a plan tailored specifically for your organization.

Clients who engage our Professional Data Services team partner with us during the initial sales process. During this time, our Professional Services team will work with you to understand your data requirements, establish a communication plan and, most importantly, partner with you to understand your business needs so they can make recommendations that are custom-tailored for you.

After the initial engagement and contract phase, our Professional Data Services team gets to work and will work with you to quickly define a project schedule based on the information gathered during the initial discovery meeting. It's during this phase that you will receive a project plan that includes:

  • Web agent-build schedule
  • Requirements for Web page data acquisition, i.e. mapping the data extraction points
  • Requirements for data output and data delivery
  • Building of the test feeds to validate project plan

Web agent-building and scheduling are the keys to accessing Web data that can change how your organization makes decisions. This is why our Professional Data Services team will guide you every step of the way in the delivery of your solution. We will send you regular reports as well as sample data as each Web connection is designed. All of these steps are clearly communicated, managed and bound by our Service Level Agreement (SLA). This commitment to service and partnership will help you succeed in your data management program.

Ongoing Maintenance
Websites are always changing. Our web agents are built to adapt to page changes, but in some situations, a page change may be drastic and the information that our agent is trying to retrieve may not be available. However, our scraping technology has automated monitoring capabilities, which ensures that these errors have minimal negative impact on the continuous flow of extracted data. Our software distinguishes classes of errors and is able to deliver specific error messages to our Professional Data Services team, as specificity about what went wrong facilitates faster fixes. Our team and software address errors according to severity, not merely by time of occurrence. This approach saves time, effort and downtime.

Once an error alert has been received, our Professional Data Services team works to diagnose the error. During this time, they will take the agent offline so that erroneous data isn't delivered. Once the problem has been diagnosed and fixed, our team tests the agent, validates the data and returns the agent to normal operations.

Clients who use our agent maintenance service rest easy knowing that the data they require to make business decisions will be available when they need it.