Selling Data

From the most obvious ways to the least.

Data is a very useful resource. Some even call data the oil of the 21st century.

This is why not only companies but regular people would pay to get clean data in a spreadsheet that they later will turn into something that can help them stay ahead of their competitors, or even start their own business!

There’s no doubt that there’s a high demand to get data from websites and you can use web scraping to automatically extract all this data.

Here are 3 ways to make money using web scraping. You can use web scraping libraries in Python such as Beautiful Soup, Selenium, or Scrapy to do this or use any other programming language that allows you to scrape websites.

In case you don’t feel like reading, watch my video below.

When it comes to making money selling the data you web scraped, the most common way is selling it to companies. That said, there are also other potential clients that will pay you to get data.

There are many companies out there that need data to power their business and do research to stay ahead of their competitors.

The good news is that there are data all over the internet. However, there’s a little problem — most of that public data is unstructured. That is, the data isn’t organized in a pre-defined manner, so instead of having the data in a nice-looking Excel spreadsheet, you’d find this unstructured data in an email, social media posts, videos, images, etc.

This is a big issue because working with unstructured data isn’t simple, so companies want to extract this messy data and put it into a clean spreadsheet like the one you see below.

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