Iwearglasses
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I am a PHP developer and was getting into web scraping. How can I make money with the skill?
How to make money with web scraping?
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Iwearglasses
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Do certain niches do better than others? Like should I scrape leads for recruiters or local businesses?
terrycody
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Also, you can make automation sites, like scrape other's articles and spin the article, or process the text in your own way to make it unique and index on Google.
You can also make Wordpress plugins, like have premium features to earn money or donation.
You can make easy SAAS apps using PHP.
Iwearglasses
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Great insight. That is pretty interesting for scraping the articles and spinning them. I am not familair with SAAS app so I would have to look into that. Appreciate the help.
terrycody
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Don't worry, there are a lot of insights on platforms like indiehacker, producthunt.
Iwearglasses
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Will take a look.
Scraping is one part. But spinning is another. Anyone who has attended a $10 Python BootCamp on Udemy can build a scraper, but it is your skill to make the piece more unique and valuable for the end user matters. Pick a niche, and play around with automated AI-spun content with your Scraped data. If I were you, I won't try this out on my money site. Perhaps you could register a new one and see how it goes to stay on the safe side.
Iwearglasses
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Sounds good.
I have pretty decent writing skills. And just finished a BA in Information Technology. I was going to start a blog in tech but thought it might be oversaturated. I will try what you said with some other niche and see what I can come up with.
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One has to be very careful while scraping others content and spinning it. If you don't spin the content you may receive a DMCA notice. If the content is not spun properly it will be neglected by Google and your audience for poor quality.
I am doing almost similar project these days and in no way it is passive. One has to constantly keep monitoring it and checking for issues, errors and quality.
If you know to code, you can automate the process using an API such as WordAI. It is quite simple. With this integration, you can spin as you scrape and publish. Want proofreading in between? Hire VA to do it for you. If you do everything by yourself, you'll ultimately end up burning and might as well throw the project into the trash.
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I have already integrated WordAI mate
Everytiem a scraped article is imported, it is spun automatically before publishing.The setting of WordAI is kept at "adventurous".
WordAI is by far the best solution I have found in the market after experimenting with other tools. Still there are places where human monitoring is needed.
As you said I can hire a VA, but the projects budget doesn't allow this yet. Once the sites revenue increases then it will surely accommodate couple of assistants in future. I am open to this.
CyberCommander
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For me would be a tool interesting which can collect Company informations like e-mail adresses etc or urls of classified sites of a specific country
terrycody
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I have already integrated WordAI mate
The setting of WordAI is kept at "adventurous".
WordAI is by far the best solution I have found in the market after experimenting with other tools. Still there are places where human monitoring is needed.
As you said I can hire a VA, but the projects budget doesn't allow this yet. Once the sites revenue increases then it will surely accommodate couple of assistants in future. I am open to this.
Does pure scrape + WordAi site work? Seems you are doing this thing... I mean, Google can't detect this right?
It depends on your approach. If you do it properly, no, Google can't trace it. In fact, Google will think that you're more experienced in this than the original author. But to achieve that level, you need multiple levels. Like Page Scrape + Spun + GPT3 + Proofreading. Once you write the code, it is really easy. But writing it to work perfectly is the real deal.
terrycody
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What the GPT-3 role in this chain? GPT-3 can be used as spun function right?
It can't be spun by itself. At least, I don't know how to code it like that. But it can write more and I ask my VA to do it when it is manually proofread. So it adds more context than what the original writer has provided.
shuttershades
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There are out there already plugins that scrape anything, but not are user-friendly.
Peoples need to install the plugin and start the plugin to do the job.
My advice is to create WP plugins for specific needs.
For example, if one guy needs to scrape Product Hunt they will search for: "Product Hunt to WordPress" "Product Hunt WordPress scrapper" etc. Some peoples need scrappers to collect leads, some need to automatically post to WordPress.
Peoples need to install the plugin and start the plugin to do the job.
My advice is to create WP plugins for specific needs.
For example, if one guy needs to scrape Product Hunt they will search for: "Product Hunt to WordPress" "Product Hunt WordPress scrapper" etc. Some peoples need scrappers to collect leads, some need to automatically post to WordPress.
Margaret Martinson
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Make a tool and sell it