How does it work?

A hassle-free solution

It's simple: We provide an end-to-end service for gathering the data you need.

Input: Customers only need to explain their business requirements.

1. List of websites: Send us the list of websites from which you need to extract content.
2. Format of output: Tell us the data elements you need to extract and the format for the output.
3. Frequency of updates: Let us know what frequency you need to refresh content: Should the updates be one time, daily, weekly, or monthly?

Output: Cazoodle will deliver results that match your data requirements.

1. We'll take care of the configuration for your desired websites for crawling, for organizing data, and for delivering output in the desired format.
2. As websites change, our software is self-healing; it will adapt to the new format of the website. Should there be a need for re-training, we'll take care of maintenance.

Benefits for customers

With our end-to-end service, customers receive the following benefits:

• No software downloads
• No training, no programming
• No fixed cost — order as needed

Pricing

There are no upfront costs; you don't have to pay for any customization. Simply pay for the crawling service we provide you. (Note: we don't sell any data; you're only charged for the service we provide to crawl data. The original sites own the content). The cost is based on the following two factors (give us a call to learn more):

• Number of websites targeted, and
• Number of records delivered.

Why use it?

The top 5 reasons that customers use our Data Factory service

1. Proven Technology: Our Data Factory technology is proven for scale to large-scale Web data extraction and integration. When building new services, customers can be confident that our solution works!
   • Cazoodle has built many large-scale search engines for end users in many domains. Our data factory solution is used to crawl millions of records from across 20,000 websites, spanning our current search engines in Real Estate (Cazoodle Apartment Search), Ecommerce (Cazoodle Shopping Search), and Travel (Cazoodle Vacation Housing).
   • Our end-to-end service has been used successfully by outside organizations and companies to integrate it into their businesses processes, including the U.S. Army, PriceGrabber, Zap, and many more.
2. Hassle-free Solutions: We provide an end-to-end service for gathering Web data, which means customers can focus on building their applications, and revolutionizing the world and let us handle the task of gathering data.
3. Better than Alternatives: Our solution is based on technology invented by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, which offers many novelties compared to any other existing approaches available on the market.
   • Manual Copy/Paste: Mark Twain once said, “Relying on humans to manually copy/paste data is an insult to computer science.” Actually, he didn’t. But that’s because computer science didn’t exist in his time. This approach works well if there are only a couple of data elements per website: for everything else, there's Cazoodle!
   • Software Programming: The alternative, also known as “web scraping,” relies on software engineers to write rules using regular expressions to locate data elements of interest to you. This approach can work only if you need data from a couple of websites—and only once. New scripts need to be written for every new website and the scripts need to be revised every time websites change their format. If you need large-scale integration, or need repeated re-crawling of content, you should be using Cazoodle.
   • GUI Tools: Some companies provide you with GUI-based software tools that will help your programmers speed up writing software programs for new websites. The problem is that these tools only provide the software—you still have to hire software engineers to operate these software tools and debug the resulting programs, which makes the approach far more expensive than it should be— (read: 10x – 20x times more expensive than using Cazoodle).
4. Unbeatable Pricing: There are no up-front licensing fees. We charge customers only for the crawling service, based on the number of websites you crawl and the number of records we deliver.
5. Data Agnostic: Our solution works well for websites in any application domain, or in any language. The software crawls data across a wide variety of applications as well as in a variety of languages including English, Portuguese, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, and many others.

Who can use it?

Various organizations found our Data Factory service useful. The following scenarios are an illustration of what we foresee as possible uses of our technology.

What is readily available?

Cazoodle also makes the following datasets readily available for partner organizations. If you're interested, please contact us by using the adjacent form. In addition to the following datasets, you may certainly use our Data Factory service to gather any type of dataset.