80legs is a powerful cloud-based platform designed for customizable web crawling and data extraction at scale, catering to businesses and developers seeking actionable insights from online data.
The platform enables users to efficiently extract data from public websites, making it an ideal solution for applications such as market research, competitive analysis, and academic studies. With its advanced infrastructure, 80legs offers two primary products: Custom Web Crawling, which allows users to execute personalized crawls tailored to specific data requirements, and Giant Web Crawl, providing access to data from comprehensive web crawls. Additionally, through its Datafiniti feature, users can bypass the complexities of web scraping with instant access to pre-structured datasets. The platform’s flexibility lies in its ability to create or integrate prebuilt crawling apps using JavaScript, enabling precise definitions of data to collect and links to follow. Users can input thousands of URLs for crawling, while 80legs handles the entire process, ensuring seamless operations through features like rate limiting, IP rotation, and deduplication. This ensures ethical and efficient data collection while maintaining uninterrupted performance. Whether for large-scale data extraction or custom crawls, 80legs delivers a scalable, reliable solution, empowering users to derive meaningful insights from the web with minimal effort.