15 problems web data and monitoring bring us, each with the cause, what it costs and what we build to fix it.
Monitoring planning applications by hand across council portals misses work and wastes hours. SpiderHunts builds one filtered feed with alerts for your team.
Tracking brand mentions in news and trade sites by hand misses coverage and complaints. SpiderHunts builds a monitor that finds, filters and routes mentions.
Tracking tenders across portals by hand means missed deadlines and wasted searches. SpiderHunts gathers notices into one feed, filtered and ranked for you.
Monitoring reviews across sites by hand means slow replies and missed patterns. SpiderHunts pulls reviews into one inbox, alerts on bad ones and tags themes.
A scraper that keeps breaking usually relies on brittle selectors and has no health checks. SpiderHunts rebuilds it to fail loudly and be quick to repair.
Monitoring Companies House changes by hand means late warnings of insolvency or director changes. SpiderHunts builds alerts for the companies you rely on.
Aggregating property listings by hand from agents and portals is slow and full of duplicates. SpiderHunts builds a permitted, deduplicated listings feed.
Tracking job postings across sites by hand misses signals and wastes time. SpiderHunts builds a permitted feed of postings, filtered and matched to your aims.
Copying data out of a portal with no API wastes staff time and invites errors. SpiderHunts builds an approved, logged-in extractor with checks and alerts.
Checking supplier stock availability by hand leads to overselling and slow quotes. SpiderHunts builds automated stock checks that update your own systems.
When website terms forbid scraping, there are still routes to the data: APIs, licences, partnerships and open data. SpiderHunts helps you find and build them.
A scraper that returns an empty page is usually hitting a JavaScript site. SpiderHunts finds where the data really loads and picks the lightest tool that works.
A Selenium scraper too slow to finish usually runs a browser it does not need. SpiderHunts rebuilds collection with Scrapy or plain HTTP where the site allows.
A scraper that keeps getting blocked is usually too aggressive or unwelcome. SpiderHunts makes collection polite, or finds an approved route to the same data.
To monitor web pages for changes, most teams rely on someone remembering to look. SpiderHunts builds watchers that detect real changes and summarise them.