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Kanhasoft is a trusted web scraping company with 13+ years of experience building custom Python-based, AI-powered data extraction pipelines for businesses across the USA, UK, UAE, Europe, and Israel. Every scraping solution we deliver-from eCommerce price monitoring to healthcare data extraction - is engineered for accuracy, reliability, and scale.

  • 100+ real-world scraping projects — Healthcare, eCommerce, Travel, Finance & more
  • Python/Scrapy/Playwright stack — handles JavaScript, dynamic sites & anti-bot systems
  • Proxy rotation, CAPTCHA handling & session management built into every pipeline
  • AI-powered PDF extraction using Gemini AI, LlamaIndex & OCR for document-heavy sources
  • Clean structured data delivered in JSON, CSV, API or direct database format
  • We deliver free sample data first - proceed only when you are satisfied
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We innovate with AI-driven, cutting-edge technology, integrate seamless solutions, and inspire digital transformation across industries.

Projects Completed

500+

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Years of Experience

13+

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Happy Client

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Specialist

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18,875 Working Hours $500K+ Earned

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Products Scraped

100K+

Products Scraped for Amazon eCommerce Clients

Healthcare Websites

1,000+

Healthcare Websites Covered Across the USA

Amazon Reviews

80K+

Amazon/Walmart Reviews Extracted with 95%+ Accuracy

Platforms Tracked

50+

Platforms Tracked for Dental Product Intelligence

Job Listing Websites

35+

Job Listing Websites Scraped for Recruitment Intelligence

Hotel Records

50K+

Hotel Records Extracted for Travel & Hospitality Clients

What our clients say

Working with Kanhasoft has been fantastic. They exceeded our expectations with fast responses, clear communication, and technical expertise. They handled last-minute changes with ease and delivered tailored solutions. Their automation skills helped us streamline processes and save time. Kanhasoft truly felt like part of our team. If you need reliable web developers, Kanhasoft is a partner you can trust. 

Alexandria Pegnato

Kanhasoft helped the client build a successful product, enabling them to record a client NPS of 75% with about 1,250 customers. They also supported the client to achieve a 100% growth rate. Moreover, the vendor delivered clean code and architecture, resulting in a reliable app with minimal downtime.

Jörg Siegel

Kanhasoft delivered the first full version of the MVP in less than four weeks. The team communicates seamlessly and responds to queries promptly. They know how to fill the blanks in a not-so-ideal specification with minimal direction.

Bernd Schossmann

Core Expertise for Web Data Scraping

Real-Time Price Monitoring Solutions

Real-Time Price Monitoring Solutions

Web scraping services enable businesses to monitor product prices in real time across websites and marketplaces. This helps companies track competitor pricing, identify trends, and make faster, data-driven decisions to stay competitive in dynamic and rapidly changing market environments.

Price Intelligence Services

Price Intelligence Services

Kanhasoft provides advanced price intelligence services using custom web scraping solutions to collect and analyze pricing data from multiple platforms. This enables businesses to understand market positioning, track competitor pricing strategies, and optimize their own pricing decisions for better profitability and growth.

Product Comparison

Product Comparison

Web scraping allows businesses to compare products across various platforms by analyzing pricing, features, availability, and positioning. This helps organizations identify competitive gaps, refine product strategies, and make informed decisions that improve offerings and strengthen their position in the market.

Customer Review Monitoring

Customer Review Monitoring

Web scraping helps businesses collect and analyze customer reviews from eCommerce platforms, social media, and review websites. This allows companies to understand customer sentiment, identify issues, improve product quality, and enhance overall customer experience to build stronger trust and brand loyalty.

Amazon Store Monitoring

Amazon Store Monitoring

For businesses selling on Amazon, web scraping solutions help monitor product rankings, pricing trends, customer reviews, and competitor activity. This provides actionable insights that help optimize listings, improve visibility, and enhance overall store performance in a highly competitive marketplace environment.

AI-Powered Data Extraction

AI-Powered Data Extraction

Our web scraping solutions leverage AI and automation to extract structured and unstructured data efficiently from complex and dynamic websites. This approach improves accuracy, scalability, and processing speed, enabling businesses to generate reliable insights and support data-driven decision-making at scale.

Brand Sentiment Monitoring

Brand Sentiment Monitoring

Web scraping enables businesses to track brand sentiment across social media platforms, forums, and review websites. This helps companies understand public perception, detect negative feedback early, and adjust strategies to maintain a positive brand image and improve customer engagement.

PDF Data Extraction

PDF Data Extraction

AI-powered PDF data extraction allows businesses to extract valuable information from documents such as reports, invoices, and catalogs. It converts structured and unstructured data into usable formats, reduces manual effort, and enables faster processing of large volumes of document-based information.

Web Scraping Technical Overview 

Our web scraping solutions are built using scalable architectures, modern frameworks, and advanced automation techniques. We combine multiple technologies to handle different types of websites, ensure data accuracy, and deliver structured outputs for business use. 

Our expertise includes (but is not limited to)

We build custom scraping solutions across a wide range of platforms: 

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E-commerce

(Amazon, Walmart, Shopify stores)

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Healthcare

(medical records, events, research data, hospital listings, reports)

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Real Estate

(property listings, pricing, location data, rental insights)

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OTT platforms and streaming services

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Social media platforms and community driven content

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Government and public data portals  

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Financial and market data platforms

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Travel, hospitality, and booking platforms

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Job portals and recruitment platforms 

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Directory and listing Web + Mobile Apps 

(Zomato, Swiggy, GroceryMart, etc.)  

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In addition to the above, we can scrape any website or platform where data is accessible, regardless of industry, structure, or complexity.  

We specialize in extracting all types of available data in internet, including product data, pricing, reviews, listings, catalogs, events, documents, and structured or unstructured datasets for business use. 

Core Technologies

We use industry-standard tools and frameworks for reliable and scalable data extraction: 

  • Scrapy framework for large-scale crawling
  • Selenium for browser automation
  • Playwright for handling dynamic websites
  • Django for backend processing and workflow management

Python Libraries Used

Our scraping solutions leverage powerful Python libraries for parsing, processing, and exporting data:  

  • Requests for HTTP data fetching
  • lxml and BeautifulSoup for HTML parsing
  • JSON for structured data handling  
  • Re (regular expressions) for pattern matching
  • Pandas and numpy for data processing and transformation

Have a specific scraping requirement or an unusual data source? Our Python engineers will scope it for free — no commitment required.

Get a Free Technical Consultation

Website-Wise Preferred Technical Stack 

We use a flexible and adaptive technical approach based on website structure, data complexity, and industry requirements, rather than relying on a single fixed stack. 

Our web scraping architecture is designed to handle any type of platform, including dynamic, API-driven, and document-heavy systems. Industry & Platform-Based Approaches: 

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Healthcare & Research Platforms:

Scrapy + Playwright/Selenium + proxy rotation + PDF and document extraction

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Real Estate & Property Platforms:

Scrapy + Playwright/Selenium + PDF handling + structured data extraction

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eCommerce & Marketplace Websites:

Scrapy + Playwright/Selenium + proxy rotation + product and pricing validation

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Social Media & Community Platforms:

Scrapy + session management + residential proxies + dynamic content handling

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OTT & Streaming Platforms:

Scrapy + Playwright + API inspection + metadata extraction

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Government & Public Data Portals:

Scrapy + lxml + table parsing + PDF/document extraction

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Mobile Applications & API-Based Platforms:

API analysis + requests + JSON parsing + reverse engineering of endpoints

Proxy and Anti-Blocking Strategy

To ensure uninterrupted scraping and avoid blocking, we use: 

  • Residential proxies
  • Rotating proxies
  • Datacenter proxies
  • Mobile proxies

This enables large-scale data extraction with geo-targeting and high success rates.  

PDF and Document Data Extraction

We handle both structured and unstructured document data using:   

  • PyPDF2 for text-based PDF extraction
  • pdf plumber for tables and structured data
  • OCR tools for scanned documents
  • pytesseract for image-based text recognition
  • Llama Index for document indexing and processing
  • GenAI/LLM-based extraction for metadata, titles, abstracts, and authors

Key Technical Capabilities

Our web scraping solutions support advanced use cases such as:  

  • Dynamic website scraping
  • API and GraphQL response handling
  • Session and cookie management
  • Stock and price validation
  • Product variation and attribute handling
  • Sponsored data extraction
  • Data cleaning, validation, and transformation

Common Output Formats

We deliver structured data in formats that integrate easily with your systems:  

  • JSON
  • CSV
  • Excel
  • API
  • Database storage (SQL/NoSQL)

Technical Summary

  • We use Scrapy for scalable crawling and structured extraction
  • Selenium and Playwright handle dynamic and JavaScript-heavy websites
  • Proxies ensure anti-blocking, geo-targeting, and large-scale scraping
  • Python libraries are used for parsing, cleaning, validation, and data export

Web Scraping Case Studies - Projects We Have Built for Global Clients

We have developed production scraping pipelines across Healthcare, eCommerce, Travel, Finance, and Entertainment for businesses in the USA, UK, UAE and beyond.

Web & PDF Data Scraping for Healthcare Medical Conferences USA Flag USA

We developed a large-scale web scraping system covering 1000+ healthcare websites across the USA to collect medical event data from both websites and PDF documents. The solution extracts key details such as event names, dates, locations, and speaker information from dynamic and unstructured sources. Using advanced scraping tools and AI-based PDF parsing, the system ensures accurate and reliable data extraction. All data is cleaned, structured, and stored in a centralized database for easy access.

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Healthcare

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Python, Scrapy, Playwright, Django, Celery, Redis, Gemini AI

Data Points Collected

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Web data, structured JSON from PDFs

Scale

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Multi-source automated pipeline

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Extracting data from dynamic websites and unstructured PDFs with inconsistent formats.

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Solution

We develop a robust scraper that:

  • Handles JavaScript-heavy websites
  • Uses AI to parse unstructured PDFs
  • Validates and structures extracted data
  • Automates end-to-end data pipelines

Dental Product Inventory & Stock Intelligence Scraper Brazil Flag Brazil

We built an advanced scraping ecosystem to monitor dental product inventory across 8+ platforms with variant-level tracking. The system captures stock details like specific product variations to size, type, pricing dynamically. By syncing data to PostgreSQL, it automates 30,000+ collection and reporting. Advanced proxy rotation ensures high accuracy despite anti-bot protections. This enabled real-time inventory insights and competitive advantage.

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Healthcare /E-commerce

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Python, Django, Celery, PostgreSQL, ScrapiOps, Zyte

Data Points Collected

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Product variations, stock levels, pricing, availability

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8+ websites, variant-level tracking

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Challenge

Tracking real-time stock across multiple websites with complex product variations and strong anti-bot protections.

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Solution

We built an advanced scraping ecosystem that:

  • Tracks stock at variant level (size, type, etc.)
  • Uses proxy rotation and anti-block tools
  • Automates daily data extraction and reporting
  • Cleans and structures data for analysis

Need a similar data extraction solution for your business?

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Amazon Product & Pricing Scraper USA Flag USA

For Amazon, we developed a scalable web scraping solution to extract product listings, pricing, and customer reviews across thousands of items. The system efficiently handled pagination, filtering, and dynamic content to ensure accurate data collection. All data was structured and stored in a centralized database for analysis. This enabled businesses to monitor competitors, optimize pricing strategies, and improve decision-making. The solution significantly reduced manual effort while delivering real-time insights.

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E-commerce

TECH STACK

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Python, Scrapy, Selenium, PostgreSQL, AWS

Data Points Collected

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Product titles, prices, reviews, ratings, seller info

Scale

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100k+ products

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Challenge

Managing high-volume product data across multiple pages with dynamic loading, filtering, and sorting.

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Solution

We built a robust scraper that:

  • Handles pagination and dynamic content
  • Extracts structured product and review data
  • Manages proxy rotation and anti-bot handling
  • Stores clean data in a centralized database

Hotel Revenue Management Scraper (Booking.com) USA Flag USA

We built a data scraping system for Booking.com to help hotels track competitor pricing and availability. The tool collected room rates, types, and availability for multiple competitors from 365-day booking windows. Data was organized into structured formats and made accessible via APIs for reporting and forecasting. This allowed hotels to make data-driven pricing decisions. As a result, businesses improved revenue optimization and gained a competitive edge.

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Hospitality / Travel

TECH STACK

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Python, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, JSON APIs, AWS Lambda

Data Points Collected

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Room types, prices, availability, competitor ratings

Coverage

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30+ competitors per hotel, 365 days

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Challenge

Collecting accurate competitor pricing data across multiple dates and locations.

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Solution

We developed a system that:

  • Scrapes booking data across date ranges
  • Tracks competitor pricing trends
  • Structures data into JSON for API access
  • Integrates with hotel dashboards for reporting

Need a similar data extraction solution for your business?

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Spotify Artist Analytics Scraper UK Flag UK

For Spotify, we developed a data pipeline to gather and analyze artist performance metrics, including streams, listeners, and playlist placements. The system also captured audience demographics and historical trends over time. All insights were visualized through an interactive dashboard for easy analysis. This helped artists and teams understand audience behavior and improve marketing strategies. The solution enabled smarter data-driven growth in the music industry.

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Music / Entertainment

TECH STACK

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Python, APIs, Data Pipelines, MongoDB, React Dashboard

Data Points Collected

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Streams, listeners, demographics, playlists

Time Range

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12 months of artist data

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Challenge

Aggregating diverse artist performance metrics into a unified analytics system.

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Solution

We created a data pipeline that:

  • Collects song and album performance metrics
  • Tracks listener demographics and playlist placements
  • Aggregates historical trends
  • Displays insights in a user-friendly dashboard

TripAdvisor Nearby Places Scraper USA Flag USA

We developed a location-based scraping solution for TripAdvisor to collect data on nearby restaurants, attractions, and venues. Using geographic inputs, the system extracted detailed reviews, ratings, and images for each location. The data was organized into a scalable database with location filters and real-time recommendations. This enabled enhanced user experiences, including AI/ML-based exploration. The project delivered a comprehensive local discovery platform.

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Travel / Location Intelligence

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Python, Selenium, Geo APIs, MongoDB, AWS

Data Points Collected

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Place names, reviews, ratings, history, images, location data

Coverage

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Multiple cities and geolocations

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Extracting structured location-based data (restaurants, attractions, bars) using geographic inputs while maintaining accuracy across dynamic listings.

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Solution

We built a geo-based scraping system that:

  • Uses location coordinates and city filters
  • Extracts detailed place information, reviews and images
  • Stores data in a scalable database
  • Integrates with AI/ML-based search features for real-time exploration

Need a similar data extraction solution for your business?

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Amazon Seller Review Scraper USA Flag USA

We created an advanced review scraping system for Amazon to extract customer feedback and reviewer details. The system navigated multiple pages and adapted to frequent layout changes to ensure consistent data extraction. It collected reviews, ratings, and user insights for in-depth sentiment analysis. The structured data also helped businesses understand customer behavior and improve products. This resulted in better marketing knowledge and enhanced customer engagement.

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E-commerce / Customer Insights

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Python, Scrapy, Selenium, Proxy Rotation, PostgreSQL

Data Points Collected

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Customer reviews, ratings, reviewer profiles, product details

Coverage

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100k+ reviews across multiple products

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Challenge

Extracting limitless customer reviews along with user information from multiple pages, while adapting to frequent layout changes.

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Solution

We developed a dynamic scraper that:

  • Navigates product and review pages efficiently
  • Extracts customer reviews with metadata
  • Handles pagination and anti-bot measures
  • Continuously adapts to frontend changes

Types of Custom Web Scraping Solutions  We Build for Different Industries

Each industry has different website structures, data models, anti-bot challenges, and legal considerations. We build scraping pipelines specifically engineered for your sector — with the right tech stack, the right proxy strategy, and the right data validation for your use case.

eCommerce & Marketplace Scraping

eCommerce & Marketplace Scraping

We build scraping pipelines for Amazon, Walmart, Shopify, eBay, Flipkart, and custom eCommerce platforms — extracting product listings, pricing, inventory levels, seller rankings, ASIN data, and customer reviews at scale. Our scrapers handle dynamic page loading, pagination, product variant tracking, and Amazon's anti-bot systems to deliver clean, structured product data for competitive pricing, catalog management, and marketplace intelligence.

Tech: Python, Scrapy, Playwright, Proxy Rotation, PostgreSQL, AWS
Real Estate Data Scraping

Real Estate Data Scraping

We extract property listings, pricing trends, rental rates, days-on-market data, location coordinates, agent information, and historical pricing from real estate portals, MLS platforms, and property marketplaces. Our real estate scrapers handle geo-based filtering, interactive map interfaces, and PDF document extraction to deliver structured property data for analytics, valuation models, and investment research tools.

Tech: Python, Scrapy, Playwright, Geo APIs, MongoDB
Healthcare & Medical Data Scraping

Healthcare & Medical Data Scraping

We build healthcare-aware scraping systems for extracting medical event data, provider directories, clinical trial listings, drug databases, and hospital information from 1,000+ sources including dynamic websites and complex PDFs. Our pipelines use Gemini AI and LlamaIndex for AI-powered PDF parsing — extracting structured data from event schedules, research papers, and medical reports that traditional scrapers cannot process.

Tech: Python, Scrapy, Playwright, Django, Celery, Redis, Gemini AI
Travel & Hospitality Scraping

Travel & Hospitality Scraping

We scrape hotel pricing, room availability, competitor rates, restaurant listings, review data, and airline fares from Booking.com, TripAdvisor, Airbnb, Expedia, and other travel platforms. Our hospitality scrapers cover 365-day date ranges, multi-competitor tracking, geo-based location filtering, and real-time benchmarking to power revenue management systems and pricing intelligence dashboards.

Tech: Python, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, JSON APIs, AWS Lambda
Finance & Market Data Scraping

Finance & Market Data Scraping

We extract stock prices, financial statements, earnings reports, analyst summaries, news headlines, company filings, and regulatory disclosures from financial platforms, SEC/EDGAR portals, and investment research websites. Our financial scrapers handle session management, paginated archives, and structured document extraction to deliver timely, clean data for trading models, risk analytics, and investment research.

Tech: Python, Scrapy, Pandas, PostgreSQL, Scheduled Pipelines
Social Media & Brand Sentiment Scraping

Social Media & Brand Sentiment Scraping

We build public brand monitoring pipelines that extract posts, comments, reviews, and engagement metrics from social media platforms, forums, Reddit, and review websites. Our systems track brand mentions, competitor sentiment, product feedback, and trending topics in real time — delivering structured datasets for marketing teams, PR professionals, and product development workflows.

Tech: Python, Scrapy, Session Management, Residential Proxies, MongoDB

Why Choose Kanhasoft for Custom Web Scraping Services?

Selecting the right web scraping partner directly determines whether your pipeline stays reliable after the first week — or breaks every time a target website updates its layout. At Kanhasoft, we've delivered 7+ production web scraping systems across Healthcare, eCommerce, Travel, Finance, and Entertainment. We combine deep Python expertise with AI-assisted extraction and proactive maintenance to ensure your data arrives on time, every time.

Python-First, Not SaaS-Limited

We engineer your scraper from scratch in Python — not as a configuration in a third-party SaaS scraping tool. This means no monthly subscription fees for your data pipeline, no vendor-imposed limits on volume or frequency, and complete ownership of your scraping infrastructure. You own the code, the pipeline, and the data.

AI-Powered for Complex Sources

Most scraping companies stop at HTML. We go further — using Gemini AI, LlamaIndex, and OCR tools to extract structured data from PDFs, scanned documents, and unstructured sources that traditional scrapers can't handle. We've processed 1,000+ healthcare PDFs at scale with 95%+ accuracy.

Anti-Bot Expertise Built In

Proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, headless browser automation, session management, and rate limiting are not afterthoughts in our builds — they are core architecture decisions made before a single line of scraping code is written. Our systems maintain high accuracy against Amazon, Booking.com, and other heavily protected platforms.

Maintained, Not Abandoned

Websites change. Most scrapers break within weeks of delivery when target sites update their layout. Every project we deliver includes active monitoring, automatic failure alerts, and ongoing maintenance to keep your pipeline running reliably — not just through the first run, but over the long term.

How Our Custom Web Scraping  Process Works

Building a reliable web scraper is not about writing a quick Python script — it's about understanding your data sources, your volume requirements, and your anti-bot landscape before a single line of code is written. Our process ensures your pipeline is built right the first time, and stays running long after delivery.

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Discovery & Requirement Analysis

We start by understanding your target websites, data fields, extraction frequency, delivery format, and any known anti-bot challenges. We review the site structure, check for JavaScript rendering requirements, assess PDF or document extraction needs, and identify the right technical approach before scoping the project. You receive a clear, itemised estimate after this phase — before any commitment is made.

  • Target URL review
  • Data field mapping
  • Frequency planning
  • Delivery format selection
  • Anti-bot assessment
  • Full project scoping
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Scraper Architecture & Tech Stack Selection

We select the right combination of tools based on your specific websites and data complexity. Static HTML sites use a different stack than JavaScript-rendered SPAs or PDF document pipelines. We design the proxy strategy, data validation approach, storage architecture, and scheduling mechanism at this stage — so the pipeline is built to scale from the first run.

  • Tech stack selection
  • Proxy strategy design
  • Storage architecture
  • Scheduler configuration
  • Data validation planning
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Development, Testing & Validation

We build your scraper using agile development with regular progress updates. Testing covers extraction accuracy, anti-bot handling, edge cases, data validation, and full pipeline runs against all target URLs. We test at scale before delivery — not after. Your data accuracy is validated against defined benchmarks (typically 95%+) before the pipeline goes live.

  • Scraper development
  • Proxy integration
  • CAPTCHA handling
  • End-to-end pipeline testing
  • Data accuracy validation
  • Edge case handling
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Delivery, Automation & Ongoing Maintenance

We deliver clean structured data in your chosen format (JSON, CSV, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, REST API), set up automated scheduling, configure error monitoring and failure alerts, and provide documentation for your team. We offer ongoing maintenance to update scrapers when target websites change their structure — so your pipeline stays reliable over the long term, not just on day one.

  • Data delivery setup
  • Scheduler automation
  • Error monitoring
  • Failure alert configuration
  • Documentation
  • Ongoing maintenance

Custom Web Scraping vs SaaS Scraping Tools — Key Differences

Businesses evaluating web scraping often compare building a custom solution against using a SaaS scraping platform (Apify, Scraperapi, Brightdata, Octoparse). Both have their place. Here is an honest comparison to help you decide which approach is right for your data requirements.

  • SaaS Scraping Tools
  • Monthly subscription per page/request
  • Fast - ready - made templates
  • Limited to platform features
  • Cost scales with volume - expensive at scale
  • Not available on most platforms
  • Basic - often blocked by major sites
  • No - locked into vendor platform
  • Variable - no custom validation
  • Simple, low-volume, ad-hoc data needs
  • Vendor-managed (their timeline)
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  • Cost Structure
  • Setup Speed
  • Customisation
  • Data Volume
  • PDF / Document Extraction
  • Anti-Bot Handling
  • You Own the Code
  • Data Accuracy
  • Best For
  • Maintenance
  • Custom Web Scraping (Kanhasoft)
  • One-time development cost, no ongoing fees
  • 1-3 weeks depending on complexity
  • Fully custom - any website, any data structure
  • Fixed cost regardless of data volume
  • AI-powered (Gemini AI, LlamaIndex, OCR)
  • Advanced - residential proxies, CAPTCHA, session management
  • Yes - full code ownership
  • Custom validation logic, 95%+ accuracy
  • Complex, high-volume, business-critical pipelines
  • Kanhasoft-managed (our SLA)

SaaS scraping tools work well for simple, low-volume, one-time data tasks. For businesses that need reliable, high-accuracy, high-volume data pipelines — especially from complex or protected websites — a custom-built solution delivers significantly better accuracy, lower long-term cost, and complete control over your data infrastructure. Kanhasoft specialises in the latter.

Written and reviewed by the Kanhasoft Engineering Team

This page was written and technically reviewed by Kanhasoft's Python and data engineering team — specialists with 13+ years of experience building custom web scraping solutions, data extraction pipelines, and AI-powered document processing systems for businesses in the USA, UK, UAE, Europe, and Israel. Our engineers have built production scraping systems processing 100,000+ products, 1,000+ healthcare websites, and 50,000+ reviews across eCommerce, travel, healthcare, finance, and entertainment sectors.

Kanhasoft Web Scraping Engineering Team

13+ Years · 500+ Projects · 5★ on Clutch

Frequently Asked Questions — Web Scraping Services

Yes, web scraping of publicly accessible data is generally legal in the USA, UK, and EU. We only extract data that is publicly visible in a browser — we do not bypass authentication systems, access private data, or violate platform terms in harmful ways. We recommend clients consult their legal team for jurisdiction-specific guidance, particularly for commercial use or AI training applications involving scraped data.
We can scrape any publicly accessible website. This includes eCommerce platforms (Amazon, Walmart, Shopify, eBay), real estate portals, healthcare directories, travel booking sites (Booking.com, TripAdvisor), job boards, financial platforms, social media public pages, government data portals, music platforms, and restaurant directories. We also build PDF and document extraction pipelines for data inside reports, invoices, catalogs, and research papers. If data is visible in a browser or accessible in a public document, we can extract it.
We use a layered approach: residential and rotating proxy rotation to avoid IP blocks, headless browser automation (Playwright and Selenium) to simulate real user behaviour, CAPTCHA solving tools, session and cookie management, and intelligent rate limiting. Our scrapers consistently maintain 95%+ data accuracy even against heavily protected platforms like Amazon, Booking.com, and LinkedIn. Anti-bot strategy is designed as a core architecture decision before any code is written — not patched in afterwards.
We deliver structured data in JSON, CSV, Excel, or directly into your database (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Amazon RDS). We also build REST API endpoints so your application can pull fresh scraped data in real time without managing files manually. All data is cleaned, deduplicated, and validated before delivery — you receive analysis-ready data, not raw HTML. Delivery format is agreed during the discovery phase, and we can support multiple formats simultaneously.
Web scraping project cost depends on the number of target websites, data volume, extraction frequency (one-time vs. ongoing), and complexity of anti-bot handling. Simple one-time scrapers from a single website are priced differently from large-scale automated pipelines running daily across 10+ platforms with PDF extraction and API delivery. Contact us with your requirements for a clear, itemised estimate before any work begins — no hidden fees, no vague ballparks.
Yes. We build fully automated scraping pipelines with configurable scheduling (hourly, daily, weekly, or trigger-based), error monitoring, automatic re-runs on failure, delivery notifications, and data freshness validation. Your data arrives on time, in the right format, without any manual intervention from your team. We also provide ongoing maintenance to update scrapers when target websites change their structure — so your pipeline stays reliable over the long term, not just through the first run.
Yes. PDF and document data extraction is one of our specialist capabilities. We use PyPDF2 and pdfplumber for text-based PDFs, pytesseract and OCR for scanned documents, and Gemini AI and LlamaIndex for complex, unstructured documents where traditional parsing fails — such as medical event schedules, legal filings, and research abstracts. We have built production pipelines that processed 1,000+ healthcare PDFs and research papers at scale with 95%+ structured data accuracy.
An API is a formal data access method that a website chooses to offer publicly. Web scraping extracts data directly from publicly visible pages when no suitable API exists, when an available API is too expensive, when it doesn't expose the specific data you need, or when you need to collect data simultaneously from many different websites. Most competitor pricing, product listing, and review data is only accessible via scraping — it is not exposed in any public API.

What is Web Scraping?

Web scraping is the automated process of extracting structured data from websites, marketplaces, and public sources using code — rather than copying it manually. A custom web scraping system sends programmatic requests to target URLs, parses the HTML or JSON response, extracts the specific data fields your business needs (prices, product names, reviews, listings, contact details, events, etc.), and delivers it in a clean, usable format such as JSON, CSV, or directly into your database.

Modern web scraping goes far beyond simple HTML parsing. Today's production scraping projects require handling JavaScript-rendered pages (Single Page Applications built in React, Angular, or Vue), bypassing sophisticated anti-bot systems, managing authenticated browser sessions, rotating residential and datacenter proxies, solving CAPTCHAs, extracting data from PDFs and scanned documents, and building fully automated data pipelines that run on a schedule without any human intervention.

Businesses across healthcare, eCommerce, real estate, hospitality, finance, and logistics use web scraping to collect competitor pricing, monitor inventory levels, track customer reviews, aggregate property listings, gather medical event data, and automate repetitive research processes that previously required hours of manual work every week. When the right data is collected reliably and automatically, it becomes a competitive advantage — not a recurring manual task.

At Kanhasoft, we have delivered custom web scraping and data extraction solutions for clients in the USA, UK, UAE, Brazil, France, and the UK — covering 1,000+ healthcare websites, 100,000+ eCommerce products, 50,000+ customer reviews, travel booking platforms, Spotify artist analytics, and location-based discovery systems. Our team specialises in the complex end of web scraping — the high-volume, anti-bot-protected, document-heavy projects that generic tools cannot handle.

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