Web Scraping - Data as a Service

Have you heard of data as a service (DaaS) before? A concept which can create product and services around big data which eventually can generate big revenue. I give it a thought a long time ago but recently I started to think more about it; what If it could be done using web-scrapping techniques. In short, giving a service for your customer to generate data based on scrapping tools and technologies.

Web Scraping or Web Harvesting is a technique to extract data mainly from websites. You usually view the websites in the web browser but what If that data is parsed and saved usually on your high end databases and then analysed for deeper, summarised information. Usually you will be using the big data tools to analyse but our main topic here is not about analysing that data but how you can use a web scraper as a service for your clients and be able to give them an access to that scraped data.