Ganofins

5y

Client : I have a scraping project for you...

Me : Yeah tell me which site you want me to scrape and what data from it?

Client : I want you to scrape data from 500 sites

Me : 500 sites...are you serious?

Client : Yeah 500 sites...can you do the job?

Me : ok...for 500 sites...the charge will be $500...

Client : Are you out of your mind? $500 for just 500 sites...I can only give you $50

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Ganofins

788

5y

@irene lol
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kescherRant

24533

5y

Assumig one site = $1, what did that client think?
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Ganofins

788

5y

@filthyranter don't know...I guess he was new
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thestr

156

5y

@Ganofins 500$ for all sites, are you joking?
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Ganofins

788

5y

@thestR- actually I was new to that freelancing site...
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Ganofins

788

5y

@Hubot-0x58 never thought of that
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Root

82961

5y

$500? THAT'S IT?!

$1 per site for a custom scraping script and your time?

You. are. insane.
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Ganofins

788

5y

@Root I hope that client could understand that
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hack

6518

5y

Hello. I have a scraping project for you. I want you to scrape data from google. Just scrape all results for all queries and store them in our db. Our budget is 1$.
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Ganofins

788

5y

@hack oh man 😂
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funvengeance

1258

5y

how much is scraping 500 sites supposed to be?
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forkbomber

1359

5y

Doesn't say what needs to be scraped though.
$500 is already a stupid low number of it requires actual work.
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Ganofins

788

5y

@forkbomber yeah I know
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mt3o

1936

5y

@forkbomber assume woocommerce with 1000 products. What would be the price? Hypotheticaly, if course.
And, where do you live?
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segfault0xff

3629

5y

Scraping as a service.. hmmm...
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Ganofins

788

5y

@segfault0xff yeah... anything wrong with that?
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segfault0xff

3629

5y

@Ganofins depends on the law i suppose
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Ganofins

788

5y

@segfault0xff law??
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segfault0xff

3629

5y

@Ganofins uh, yeah.

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